Explanatory note

These Regulations provide for the entitlement to costs and expenses of witnesses, interpreters and other persons who attend court or elsewhere at the instance of the Crown Prosecution Service in proceedings conducted by the Director of Public Prosecutions under Part I of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985.

Regulation 5 provides that the scales or rates of costs and expenses are now to be determined by the Attorney General with the consent of the Treasury. These Regulations replace an earlier set of Regulations, which themselves contained the scales and rates of costs and expenses.

Regulation 6 entitles a witness practising as a member of the legal or medical profession or as an accountant, dentist or veterinary surgeon to a professional witness allowance. Regulation 7 introduces an overnight subsistence allowance for professional and expert witnesses and for interpreters.

Regulation 8 entitles witnesses (other than professional or expert) and certain other persons who necessarily attend court or elsewhere, who incur certain expenditure or certain losses, to a financial loss allowance; and regulation 9 introduces day and night subsistence allowances for such witnesses and others.

Regulation 10 introduces entitlements to reimbursement of travelling expenses incurred by witnesses and others. Regulation 11 sets out three categories of persons who are not entitled to allowances under the Regulations.