SUBPOENA

SECTION 7(1) OF THE PROTECTION FROM HARASSMENT ACT, 2011 (ACT NO. 17 OF 2011)

Must be completed in duplicate: The original is to be served on the person identified in the subpoena and the document which serves as proof of service must, together with the duplicate original subpoena, be furnished to the clerk of the court.

APPLICATION NO ............................/........................

Magistrate's court for the district of ........................................................................................................................................

Address of Magistrate's court:

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In the matter between

COMPLAINANT:

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and

RESPONDENT:

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In terms of regulation 19(3) of the Protection from Harassment Regulations, 2013, .............................................................................................(name and surname of person identified by the court), is hereby ordered to hand this subpoena to the person authorised to serve subpoenas.

To: The person authorised to serve subpoenas

Serve this subpoena on:

who is hereby subpoenaed by the court to appear in person before this court on the................................. day of.......................................... 20.........at..........(time) in the above-mentioned matter to give evidence and/or to produce the book/s, document/s or object/s specified in the list hereunder.

LIST AND DESCRIPTION OF BOOK/S, DOCUMENT/S OR OBJECT/S TO BE PRODUCED

(a)        ................................................................................................................

(b)        ................................................................................................................

(c)        ................................................................................................................

(d)        ................................................................................................................

(e)        ................................................................................................................

WARNING: A person who is subpoenaed as a witness or to provide a book, document or object and who fails to-

(a)        attend or to remain in attendance at the proceedings;

(b)        appear at the place and on the date and at the time to which the proceedings in question may be adjourned;

(c)        remain in attendance at those proceedings as so adjourned; or

(d)        produce any book, document or object specified in the subpoena,

is in terms of section 7(3), read with section 18(3), of the Protection from Harassment Act, 2011, guilty of an offence.

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