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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/standing-civilian-courts-order-1997/article-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/standing-civilian-courts-order-1997/article-26.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/172",
  "legislation_title": "The Standing Civilian Courts Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/standing-civilian-courts-order-1997",
  "path": "article/26",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Witness summons",
  "text": "(1) Where any person is required to give evidence before a Standing Civilian Court the court administration officer may summon the witness by issuing a witness summons in the form set out in Schedule 2 to this Order.\n(2) Where any person is required to give evidence before a Standing Civilian Court the magistrate may, after the opening of proceedings, issue a witness summons.\n(3) A witness summons shall be served on the witness—\n(a) by delivering it to him personally;\n(b) by leaving it for him with a person at the witness’s usual place of abode;\n(c) by post in a letter addressed to him at his last known or usual place of abode; or\n(d) for a witness who is subject to military law, air force law or the Naval Discipline Act 1957, through his commanding officer.\n(4) Where any person is served with a summons in accordance with this article, there shall be paid or tendered to him at that time any expenses which by regulations made by the Defence Council are payable to a witness in respect of his attendance at a trial.\n(5) For the purposes of paragraph (4) above—\n(a) the tender of a warrant or voucher entitling the person to travel free of charge shall constitute tender of his expenses in respect of any travelling required; and\n(b) the tender of a written undertaking by the court administration officer to defray any other expenses payable under the regulations shall constitute tender in respect of those expenses.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/172/article/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:27:04.339831+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."
}