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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-notice-of-transfer-childrens-evidence-rules-1992/article-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/2070",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Notice of Transfer) (Children’s Evidence) Rules 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-notice-of-transfer-childrens-evidence-rules-1992",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Making of witness orders where person charged is not required to appear",
  "text": "Where by virtue of paragraph 2(5) of Schedule 6 to the Act, a person charged is no longer required to appear before a magistrates' court to which notice of transfer in respect of him has been given, that court shall fix a date on which it will exercise its functions under paragraph 3 of Schedule 6 to the Act and shall cause notice thereof to be given to the said person and to the Director of Public Prosecutions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/2070/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:16:51.252797+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}