The Crown Prosecution Service (Witnesses' Allowances) (Amendment No. 7) Regulations 1988

Statutory Instruments

1988 No. 807

CRIMINAL LAW, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Crown Prosecution Service (Witnesses' Allowances) (Amendment No. 7) Regulations 1988

Made

28th April 1988

Laid before Parliament

29th April 1988

Coming into force

23rd May 1988

The Attorney General, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 14(1)(b) and (2) of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985(1), and with the approval of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Regulations:

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Crown Prosecution Service (Witnesses' Allowances) (Amendment No. 7) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 23rd May 1988.

2.  In Schedule 1 to the Crown Prosecution Service (Witnesses' Allowances) Regulations 1986(2), in Column 3 of the Table, which sets out relevant amounts in relation to allowances payable under those Regulations—

(a) for the sum of £27.50 in the entry for regulation 6(a) (financial loss allowance in respect of certain expenditure incurred by a witness who attends to give evidence other than professional or expert evidence) there shall be substituted £29.70; and

(b) for the sums of £13.75 and £27.50 in the entry for regulation 6(b) (financial loss allowance in respect of certain losses suffered by such a witness) there shall be substituted £14.85 and £29.70 respectively.

3.  Regulation 3 of the Crown Prosecution Service (Witnesses' Allowances) (Amendment No. 5) Regulations 1987(3) is hereby revoked.

P.B.B. Mayhew

Her Majesty’s Attorney General

26th April 1988

We approve,

Mark Lennox-Boyd

D. Lightbown

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

28th April 1988

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations increase the maximum financial loss allowances payable under regulation 6 of the Crown Prosecution Service (Witnesses' Allowances) Regulations 1986 to a witness other than a professional or expert witness who, at the instance of the Crown Prosecution Service, attends court to give evidence and thereby incurs certain expenditure or suffers certain loss as described in that regulation.

(1)

1985 c. 23.

(2)

S.I. 1986/405, amended by S.I. 1986/842, 1250, 1818, 1987/902, 1636 and 1851.

(3)

S.I. 1987/1636.