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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/costs-in-criminal-cases-general-regulations-1986/regulation-20",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1335",
  "legislation_title": "The Costs in Criminal Cases (General) Regulations 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/costs-in-criminal-cases-general-regulations-1986",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Expert witnesses etc",
  "text": "(1) The court may make an allowance in respect of an expert witness for attending to give expert evidence and for work in connection with its preparation of such an amount as it may consider reasonable having regard to the nature and difficulty of the case and the work necessarily involved.\n(2) Paragraph (1) shall apply, with the necessary modifications, to—\n(a) an interpreter, or\n(b) a medical practitioner who makes a report otherwise than in writing for the purpose of section 30 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980\nas it applies to an expert witness.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/2448",
      "affecting_title": "The Costs in Criminal Cases (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/1804",
      "affecting_title": "The Costs in Criminal Cases (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2012"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1335/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:43:45.005374+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."
}