Jury Act Amendment Act 1928 (WA)

1928.1 Jury. [No. 12.

JURY.

19° GEO. V., No. XII.

No. 12 of 1928.

AN ACT to amend the Jury Act, 1898.

[Assented to 23rd November, 1928.]

DE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by	1
and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—

1. This Act may be cited as the Jury Act Amendment Short title.

Act, 1928, and shall be read as one with the Jury Act, 1898,

hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.

2. Sections thirty-five and thirty-six of the principal Repeal of

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Act are hereby repealed and a section is inserted in	of new section.
place thereof as follows :-

35. The Governor shall, by regulations under this Act, prescribe the fees and allowances to be paid to persons summoned and attending as jurors in courts of civil jurisdiction, and as jurors in courts of criminal jurisdiction and on a coroner's inquest, and may differentiate the amount of such fees and allowances to be payable in prescribed parts of the State. Payment of jurors.

3. Section thirty-seven of the principal Act is hereby Amendment of

amended by omitting all the words in the second and third j'•

lines thereof, and inserting in place thereof the words

regulations under this Act."" such sum per juror per diem as may be prescribed by