# The Magistrates' Courts (Recovery Abroad of Maintenance) Rules 1975, Article 10


(1) Where a justices' clerk receives from the Secretary of State a request under section 38(1) of the Act to take the evidence of any person, that evidence shall be taken in accordance with the provisions of this rule.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3) below—
(a) the person whose evidence is to be taken shall be examined on oath by or before the justices' clerk;
(b) any oral evidence shall be put into writing and read to that person who shall be required to sign the document; and
(c) the justices' clerk shall certify at the foot of any document setting out the evidence of, or produced in evidence by, that person that such evidence was taken, or document received in evidence, as the case may be, by him.
(3) Where the request referred to in section 38(1) of the Act includes a request that the evidence be taken in a particular manner the justices' clerk by whom the evidence is taken shall, so far as circumstances permit, comply with that request.
(4) For the purposes of this rule a justices' clerk shall have the like power to administer oaths as has a single justice of the peace.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1975/488/article/10 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-recovery-abroad-of-maintenance-rules-1975/article-10
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