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Medical and other similar professions The following, if actually practising their profession and registered (including provisionally or temporarily registered), enrolled or certified under the enactments relating to that profession—
 * medical practitioners,
 * dentists,
 * nurses,
 * midwives,
 * veterinary surgeons and veterinary practitioners,
 * pharmaceutical chemists.

SCHEDULE 2 In the Coroners Act 1887—
 * (a) after section 19(3) there shall be inserted the following new subsection—
 * “(3A) Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this section, no juror shall be liable to any penalty for non-attendance on a coroner's jury unless the summons requiring him to attend was duly served. on him no later than six days before the day on which he was required to attend.”;
 * (b) after section 25 there shall be inserted the following new section—
 * “25A.—(1) Subject to section 29(7A) below, a person who serves as a juror in a coroner’s court shall be entitled, in respect of his attendance at court for the purpose of performing jury service, to receive payments, at the prescribed rates and subject to any prescribed conditions, by way of allowance—
 * (a) for travelling and subsistence; and
 * (b) for financial loss where in consequence of his attendance for that purpose he has incurred any expenditure (otherwise than on travelling and subsistence) to which he would not otherwise be subject or he has suffered any loss of carnings, or of benefit under the enactments relating to national insurance and social security, which he would otherwise have made or received.