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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-tribunal-conduct-of-investigations-rules-1988/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-tribunal-conduct-of-investigations-rules-1988/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/351",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Services Tribunal (Conduct of Investigations) Rules 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-tribunal-conduct-of-investigations-rules-1988",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Taking of evidence",
  "text": "(1) When, in carrying out its inquiries, the Tribunal —\n(a) wishes to examine a witness orally —\n(i) it shall give notice to the applicant or, if there is more than one applicant, to each applicant and to the relevant authority of the time and place at which the examination will be held; and\n(ii) the applicant or applicants and the relevant authority shall be entitled to be present at the examination by the Tribunal of any witness and to put such questions to him as may appear to the Tribunal to be relevant to the subject matter of the investigation; or\n(b) takes into consideration documentary evidence or evidence in the form of computer or other non-written records not placed before the Tribunal under the provisions of rules 4 and 5, the Tribunal shall give the applicant or applicants and the relevant authority an opportunity of inspecting that evidence and taking copies or an appropriate record thereof.\n(2) The Tribunal shall send to the applicant or each of the applicants and the relevant authority transcripts of all oral evidence which has been given.\n(3) A person who has attended a hearing in obedience to a summons issued by the Tribunal shall be entitled to such sum as the Tribunal considers reasonable in respect of his attendance at and his travelling to and from the hearing.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/351/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:10:53.752601+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."
}