Schedule 7Allowances, fees and expenses
Part 2Allowances payable to witnesses
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(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, F1member of a police force or member of the tri-service serious crime unit, 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.