Coroners and Justice Act 2009

5 (1) Regulations may prescribe the allowances that may be paid by (or on behalf of) senior coroners or the Coroner for Treasure—

(a) to witnesses;

(b) to persons who produce documents or things by virtue of paragraph 1(1) or (2) of Schedule 5;

(c) to persons who provide evidence in the form of a written statement by virtue of paragraph 1(2)(a) of that Schedule.

(2) In this paragraph “witness” means a person properly attending before a senior coroner to give evidence at an inquest or in connection with the possibility of doing so (whether or not the person actually gives evidence), but does not include—

(a) a police officer, or a member of a service police force, attending in his or her capacity as such;

(b) a full-time officer of an institution to which the Prison Act 1952 (c. 52) applies in his or her capacity as such;

(c) a prisoner in respect of an occasion on which he or she is conveyed in custody to appear before a senior coroner.