Criminal Procedure (Attendance of Witnesses) Act 1965

Procedure

1Any application under section 2(2) of this Act for a direction in respect of a witness summons shall be made in accordance with rules of court or, in the case of an application to a court of quarter sessions, the standing orders of that court.

2Provision shall be made by rules of court or, as the case may be, standing orders—

(a)for requiring the service of notice of any such application on the person at whose instance the witness summons was issued;

(b)for enabling any such application to the High Court to be heard and determined by a judge of that Court in chambers;

(c)for enabling any such application to a court of quarter sessions to be heard and determined otherwise than in court—

(i)in the case of quarter sessions for a county or a London commission area, by the chairman or any deputy chairman;

(ii)in the case of quarter sessions for a borough, by the recorder or any deputy or assistant recorder.