Jury Amendment (Attendance and Refreshment Allowances) Regulation 2011 (NSW)

2011 No 338

New South Wales

Jury Amendment (Attendance and

Refreshment Allowances) Regulation

2011

under the

Jury Act 1977

Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Jury Act 1977.

GREG SMITH, MP

Attorney General

Explanatory note

The object of this Regulation is to increase the attendance allowances that are payable for service) and 76 (the general regulation-making power).

attendance for jury service and the refreshment allowance that is payable to jurors.

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Jury Amendment (Attendance and Refreshment

Allowances) Regulation 2011

under the

Jury Act 1977

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Jury Amendment (Attendance and Refreshment
Allowances) Regulation 2011.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences on 1 July 2011 and is required to be published on the NSW legislation website.

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Amendment of Jury Regulation 2010	Schedule 1
Schedule 1	Amendment of Jury Regulation 2010

Schedule 1

Omit the Schedule. Insert instead:

Schedule 1 Jury service allowances

(Clause 6)

Part 1 Attendance allowance

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Period of attendance	Daily allowance	Daily allowance
for juror who is	for juror who is
not employed	employed
Attendance for less than 4 hours if	Nil	Nil
person not selected for jury service
Attendance for 4 hours or more if person	$102.50	$102.50
not selected for jury service
Attendance for days 1–10	$102.50	$102.50
Attendance for day 11 and onwards	$102.50	$230.60

Part 2 Travelling allowance

On each day that a person is in attendance for jury service, the person is entitled to be paid as follows for one journey each way between the place of residence of that person, as shown on the jury roll, and the court or coronial inquest attended:

(a)	for a journey of not more than 14 kilometres—$4.30 each way,
(b)	for a journey of more than 14 kilometres but not more than 100 kilometres—30.70 cents per kilometre each way,
(c)	for a journey of 100 kilometres or more—$30.70 each way.
Part 3	Refreshment allowance

If a person serving as a juror is released by the judge or coroner during a luncheon adjournment, the juror is entitled to be paid a refreshment allowance of $6.75, but only if the juror does not accept any refreshment provided free of charge.