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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-and-legal-services-act-1990/schedule-17/paragraph-13",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1990/41",
  "legislation_title": "Courts and Legal Services Act 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-and-legal-services-act-1990",
  "path": "schedule/17/paragraph/13",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 36(4) of that Act (witness not to be punished for failing to appear if he is not offered payment of his reasonable expenses of attending), for the words from “the expenses\", to the end, there shall be substituted\n“—\n(a) the expenses of coming and attending to give evidence and of returning from giving evidence; and\n(b) any other reasonable expenses which he has asked to be defrayed in connection with his evidence,\nwas tendered to him at the time when the writ was served upon him. ”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 17 para. 13 wholly in force at 1. 4.1991 see s. 124(3) and S.I. 1991/608, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
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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."
}