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Regulation 25 Written medical reports

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

A medical practitioner who makes a written report to a court in pursuance of a request to which section 32(2) of the Criminal Justice Act 1967f1 applies may be allowed a medical report allowance not exceeding the relevant amount.

(2)

A medical practitioner who makes a report to which paragraph (1) applies and incurs travelling expenses in connection with the preparation of that report may be allowed a travelling allowance not exceeding the relevant amount.

(3)

Nothing in this regulation shall apply to a report by the medical officer of an institution to which the Prison Act 1952 applies.

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section 32 was amended by the Courts Act 1971 (c. 23), Schedule 6, paragraph 9(1), Schedule 11 Part III, by the Costs in Criminal Cases Act 1973 (c. 14), Schedule 1, paragraph 4, Schedule 2, by the Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973 (c. 62), Schedule 5, paragraph 17 and by the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43), section 154, Schedule 7, paragraph 65.