{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parole-board-scotland-rules-1993/article-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parole-board-scotland-rules-1993/article-23.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/2225",
  "legislation_title": "The Parole Board (Scotland) Rules 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parole-board-scotland-rules-1993",
  "path": "article/23",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Witnesses",
  "text": "(1) Where a party wishes to call any witness or witnesses at the hearing he shall, not later than the expiry of the period within which the prisoner may send written representations to the tribunal under Rule 7, make a written application to the tribunal to authorise that witness or those witnesses to attend the hearing to give evidence.\n(2) Any application under paragraph (1) shall give the name, address and occupation of each witness in respect of whom the application is made and a statement of what the general nature of his evidence is likely to be.\n(3) Any party who makes an application under paragraph (1) shall, at the same time as the application is made, send a copy of that application to the other party.\n(4) The chairman of the tribunal may grant or refuse an application under paragraph (1) and shall give each party written notice of his decision and, where the application is refused, of the reasons for that decision.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/2225/article/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:50:56.323564+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."
}