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  "legislation_title": "The Naval Custody Rules 2000",
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  "heading": "Presence of witnesses",
  "text": "Except where the person is the commanding officer or the person to whom the proceedings relate or is present to give expert evidence or evidence as to a person’s character, a person who is called to give evidence shall not, except with the consent of the judicial officer, be present at a hearing while not under examination.",
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  "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."
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