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These Regulations increase the maximum financial loss allowances payable under regulation 6 of the Crown Prosecution Service (Witnesses' Allowances) Regulations 1986 to a witness other than a professional or expert witness who, at the instance of the Crown Prosecution Service, attends court to give evidence and thereby incurs certain expenditure or suffers certain loss as described in that regulation. They also increase the mileage rates payable to all categories of witnesses.