{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-ulster-constabulary-complaints-etc-regulations-2000/regulation-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-ulster-constabulary-complaints-etc-regulations-2000/regulation-26.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2000/318",
  "legislation_title": "Royal Ulster Constabulary (Complaints etc.) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-ulster-constabulary-complaints-etc-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/26",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Expenses of complainants and witnesses",
  "text": "(1) The Ombudsman may, if he thinks fit, pay to the person by whom the complaint was made:\n(a) sums in respect of expenses properly incurred by them, excluding legal expenses;\n(b) allowances by way of compensation for the loss of their time,\nin accordance with such scales and subject to such conditions as the Department of Justice may determine.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 26 substituted (12.4.2010) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), art. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 90(4) (with Sch. 3 para. 91)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 26 in operation at 6.11.2000, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/318/regulation/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:14:16.082986+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."
}