{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-service-inquiries-regulations-2008/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-service-inquiries-regulations-2008/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1651",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces (Service Inquiries) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-service-inquiries-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Evidence and witnesses",
  "text": "(1) The president shall decide—\n(a) subject to paragraph (9), the persons from whom written or oral evidence is to be requested; and\n(b) whether a person is to be requested to produce any document or other thing,\nand the president may so decide at any time before or during the proceedings of the service inquiry panel.\n(2) Where the president makes a decision under paragraph (1) that a person be requested to provide written evidence or to produce any document or other thing, the panel must send a written request to the person—\n(a) to provide written evidence; or\n(b) to produce the document or other thing.\n(3) The president may allow a witness to give evidence through a live television link or by other means.\n(4) Any document or other thing produced to the panel by a witness for use as evidence shall be made an exhibit.\n(5) Each exhibit must be attached to or kept with the record of the proceedings unless the president decides that it is not practicable or convenient to do so.\n(6) If in accordance with paragraph (5) an exhibit is not attached to or kept with the record of the proceedings, the president shall ensure that such steps as he considers appropriate are taken for its safekeeping until the service inquiry has come to an end in accordance with regulation 9.\n(7) Subject to paragraphs (8) and (9), every witness who gives oral evidence may be required by the president to do so on oath.\n(8) Where the president would, apart from this paragraph, require a witness to give oral evidence on oath and—\n(a) the witness objects to taking an oath; or\n(b) it is not reasonably practicable without inconvenience to, or without delaying the proceedings of, the panel to administer an oath to a witness in the manner appropriate to his religious belief,\nhe must be required to make a solemn affirmation instead of taking an oath.\n(9) A witness under the age of fourteen who does not in the opinion of the president understand the nature of an oath or solemn affirmation—\n(a) may give evidence to the panel, if in the opinion of the president he understands that he should tell the truth when giving evidence to them; and\n(b) must not give evidence to the panel on oath or having solemnly affirmed.\n(10) An oath must be administered, or a solemn affirmation made, before the panel and in the form and manner set out in Schedule 1.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1651/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:29:17.298047+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."
}