{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-and-justice-act-2009/schedule-7/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2009/25",
  "legislation_title": "Coroners and Justice Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-and-justice-act-2009",
  "path": "schedule/7/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Regulations may prescribe the allowances that may be paid by (or on behalf of) senior coroners or the Coroner for Treasure—\n(a) to witnesses;\n(b) to persons who produce documents or things by virtue of paragraph 1(1) or (2) of Schedule 5;\n(c) to persons who provide evidence in the form of a written statement by virtue of paragraph 1(2)(a) of that Schedule.\n(2) In this paragraph “witness” means a person properly attending before a senior coroner to give evidence at an inquest or in connection with the possibility of doing so (whether or not the person actually gives evidence), but does not include—\n(a) a police officer, member of a police force or member of the tri-service serious crime unit, attending in his or her capacity as such;\n(b) a full-time officer of an institution to which the Prison Act 1952 (c. 52) applies in his or her capacity as such;\n(c) a prisoner in respect of an occasion on which he or she is conveyed in custody to appear before a senior coroner.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 7 para. 5(2)(a) substituted (1.5.2022 for specified purposes, 5.12.2022 in so far as not already in force) by Armed Forces Act 2021 (c. 35), s. 24(1), Sch. 5 para. 41; S.I. 2022/471, reg. 2(e); S.I. 2022/1095, reg. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 7 para. 5 in force at 25.7.2013 by S.I. 2013/1869, art. 2(m)"
    }
  ],
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  },
  "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."
}