{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-prosecution-service-witnesses-etc-allowances-regulations-1988/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-prosecution-service-witnesses-etc-allowances-regulations-1988/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1862",
  "legislation_title": "The Crown Prosecution Service (Witnesses' etc. Allowances) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-prosecution-service-witnesses-etc-allowances-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Allowances to professional witnesses for attendance",
  "text": "(1) A professional witness shall be entitled for attending to give professional evidence on any day to receive a professional witness allowance, which may be either—\n(a) where the witness has necessarily incurred expenditure in providing a substitute professional person to take care of his practice during that day, a locum allowance of an amount equal to actual expenditure incurred not exceeding the relevant amount; or\n(b) where no claim is made under sub-paragraph (a) above, a compensatory allowance of the relevant amount.\n(2) This regulation does not apply to an expert witness attending to give expert evidence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1862/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:55:54.577466+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."
}