Criminal Procedure (Attendance of Witnesses) Act 1965
a person is likely to be able to give evidence likely to be material evidence, or produce any document or thing likely to be material evidence, for the purpose of any criminal proceedings before the Crown Court, andit is in the interests of justice to issue a summons under this section to secure the attendance of that person to give evidence or to produce the document or thing.attend before the Crown Court at the time and place stated in the summons, andgive the evidence or produce the document or thing.(3) A witness summons may only be issued under this section on an application; and the Crown Court may refuse to issue the summons if any requirement relating to the application is not fulfilled.(4) Where a person has been sent for trial for any offence to which the proceedings concerned relate, an application must be made as soon as is reasonably practicable after service on that person, in pursuance of regulations made under paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, of the documents relevant to that offence.(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(6) Where the proceedings concerned relate to an offence in relation to which a bill of indictment has been preferred under the authority of section 2(2) (b) of the Administration of Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1933 (bill preferred by direction of Court of Appeal, or by direction or with consent of judge) an application must be made as soon as is reasonably practicable after the bill was preferred. (6A) Where the proceedings concerned relate to an offence that is the subject of a deferred prosecution agreement within the meaning of Schedule 17 to the Crime and Courts Act 2013, an application must be made as soon as is reasonably practicable after the suspension of the proceedings is lifted under paragraph 2(3) of that Schedule.(7) An application must be made in accordance with F37Criminal Procedure Rules; and different provision may be made for different cases or descriptions of case.may, in such cases as the rules may specify, require an application to be made by a party to the case;may, in such cases as the rules may specify, require the service of notice of an application on the person to whom the witness summons is proposed to be directed;may, in such cases as the rules may specify, require an application to be supported by an affidavit containing such matters as the rules may stipulate;may, in such cases as the rules may specify, make provision for enabling the person to whom the witness summons is proposed to be directed to be present or represented at the hearing of the application for the witness summons F48(if the application is determined at a hearing) .set out any charge on which the proceedings concerned are based;specify any stipulated evidence, document or thing in such a way as to enable the directed person to identify it;specify grounds for believing that the directed person is likely to be able to give any stipulated evidence or produce any stipulated document or thing;specify grounds for believing that any stipulated evidence is likely to be material evidence;specify grounds for believing that any stipulated document or thing is likely to be material evidence.references to any stipulated evidence, document or thing are to any evidence, document or thing whose giving or production is proposed to be required by the witness summons;references to the directed person are to the person to whom the witness summons is proposed to be directed.(a) at a place stated in the summons, and(b) at a time which is so stated and precedes that stated under section 2(2) above,a document or thing is produced in pursuance of a requirement imposed by a witness summons under section 2A above,the person applying for the summons concludes that a requirement imposed by the summons under section 2(2) above is no longer needed, andhe accordingly applies to the Crown Court for a direction that the summons shall be of no further effect,(2) An application under this section must be made in accordance with F39Criminal Procedure Rules; and different provision may be made for different
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