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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-land-court-rules-1992/schedule/paragraph-53",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/2656",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Land Court Rules 1992",
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  "path": "schedule/paragraph/53",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "53",
  "heading": "HEARING",
  "text": "The Court may call and examine, or grant commission to examine, as a witness in the cause any person whose evidence appears to them to be necessary for the purpose of determining the matters in dispute, though such person has not been called or adduced by any of the parties, and may direct his fees and expenses as a witness to be paid by the parties, or any of them, in such proportion as the Court may determine, as part of the expenses of the Application.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/1820",
      "affecting_title": "The Scotland Act 1998 (Consequential Modifications) (No.2) Order 1999"
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:13:07.842774+00:00"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}