{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parole-board-rules-2019/article-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parole-board-rules-2019/article-13.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2019/1038",
  "legislation_title": "The Parole Board Rules 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parole-board-rules-2019",
  "path": "article/13",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Witnesses",
  "text": "(1) A party who wishes to call a witness at an oral hearing must make a written application to the Board but such an application may not be made later than 12 weeks before the date for the oral hearing notified to the parties under rule 22.\n(2) A written application to call a witness must—\n(a) include the witness’s name, address and occupation, and\n(b) explain why the party wishes to call the witness.\n(3) A party who makes an application to call a witness under paragraph (1) must, at the same time, also serve a copy of the application on the other party.\n(4) A panel chair or duty member must determine an application to call a witness and must communicate this decision to the parties.\n(5) The panel chair or duty member who determines the application under paragraph (4) must give reasons in writing for any refusal to call a witness.\n(6) Where a panel chair or duty member makes a direction for a witness to be called, the Board must notify the parties in writing within 14 days.\n(7) Written notification from the Board that it intends to call a witness must—\n(a) include the witness’s name, address and occupation, and\n(b) explain why the witness is being called.\n(8) Where a witness is called under these Rules, it is the duty of—\n(a) the party calling the witness in respect of a witness called by virtue of an application under paragraph (1), and\n(b) the Board, in respect of a witness called under paragraph (6),\nto notify the witness no later than 2 weeks before the date of the allocated oral hearing of the date, time, place of the hearing and the need to attend.\n(9) Where a panel chair or duty member has directed that a witness is to be called, the panel chair or duty member may direct that it is suitable for a witness to attend via video link, telephone conference or other electronic means.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 13 in force at 22.7.2019, see rule 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/1038/article/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:39:31.947290+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."
}