Article 36 Summoning of witnesses

Subject to paragraph (2), the appellate authority may, for the purposes of any appeal, by summons on the appropriate prescribed form, require any person in the United Kingdom to attend as a witness at a hearing of the appeal at the time and place specified in the form and, subject to the provisions of rule 37(2), at the hearing to answer any questions or produce any documents in his custody or under his control which relate to any matter in question in the appeal.

A person shall not be required, in obedience to a summons referred to in paragraph (1), to travel unless the necessary expenses of his attendance are paid or tendered to him, and when the summons is issued at the request of a party, those expenses are paid or tendered by that party.