The Common Land (Rectification of Registers) Regulations 1990

Attendance of witnesses

16.—(1) Subject to the following provisions of this regulation, where a witness is required by any person entitled to be heard at a hearing to attend the hearing to give oral evidence or to produce any document in his possession or power, the Commissioner shall upon the application of the person requiring the attendance of the witness issue a summons in accordance with regulation 23(1) of the 1971 Regulations which must be served on the witness by the person requiring his attendance, who must at the same time pay or tender to the witness a sum sufficient to cover his reasonable expenses for travelling to and from, and his attendance at, the hearing, and, where appropriate, of the production of the document.

(2) No person shall be required to give any evidence or to produce any document which he could not be required to give or produce on the trial of an action in the High Court.

(3) No person shall be required to attend to give evidence or to produce any document unless his expenses are paid or tendered to him in accordance with paragraph (1) above.

(4) The Chief Land Registrar shall not be required to produce any document in his custody, but a Commissioner may, upon such application as is mentioned in paragraph (1) above, require any person who is entitled to authorise the production by the Chief Land Registrar of any document to do so, and in such case paragraphs (2) and (3) above shall apply as if that person had been required to produce that document.