Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 17 para. 12 cross-heading: for the words "Supreme Court Act 1981" wherever they occur there is substituted (1.10.2009) the words "Senior Courts Act 1981" by virtue of Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59, 148(1), Sch. 11 para. 1(2); S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)
13E+WIn section 36(4) of that Act (witness not to be punished for failing to appear if he is not offered payment of his reasonable expenses of attending), for the words from “the expenses", to the end, there shall be substituted “—
(a)the expenses of coming and attending to give evidence and of returning from giving evidence; and
(b)any other reasonable expenses which he has asked to be defrayed in connection with his evidence,
was tendered to him at the time when the writ was served upon him. ”
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 17 para. 13 wholly in force at 1. 4.1991 see s. 124(3) and S.I. 1991/608, art. 2, Sch.