{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015:article:255","workId":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015:en","title":"Power to Examine Witness Immediately","number":"255","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/255/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK III — SERVICE, PLEADINGS AND EVIDENCE","title":"TITLE III — EVIDENCE","chapter":"Chapter 8. — Furnishing of Proof"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"p1","number":"1","text":"Where at any time after the institution of a suit the court is satisfied that the evidence of a witness should be taken immediately, it may, on the application of any party or of the witness, take the evidence of such witness in the manner hereinbefore provided and such evidence may then be read at any hearing of the suit.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/255/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-procedure-code-2015-en","pdfPage":142,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-procedure-code-2015/page/142/?article=255&paragraph=p1#article-255-p1"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"Where such evidence is not taken forthwith and in the presence of the parties such notice as the court thinks sufficient of the day fixed for the examination, shall be given to the parties.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/255/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-procedure-code-2015-en","pdfPage":142,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-procedure-code-2015/page/142/?article=255&paragraph=p2#article-255-p2"}]}],"caution":"This is the English-language edition published in 2015 and attributed in its front matter to the Ministry of Justice. Refworld labels it an unofficial translation. Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation, later changes, or whether the text is currently in force."}