Witnesses Fees Act 1851 (SA)

ANNO DECIMO QUINTO

No. 11.

An Act to alter the Fees payable to Witnesses in Crinzinal Cases.

[Assented to 2 6 th December, 18 5 1. ]

.HEREAS, by a certain Ordinance passed on the seventeenth

day of July., onc thousand eight hundred nud forty-six, NO. 4.0' '946.

provide for the paymeut of' Allowances to Witnesses iu Criminal Cases," provision was made for payments to Prosecutors and Witnesses according to a scale in the said Ordinance pre- scribed: And whereas it is expedient to alter such scale of payment,

Be it Enacted by the Governor of South A~xatralia, with the scale or Fees to ba

advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, That from dteru'*

and after the passing of this Act, the Supreme Court shall be em-

powered to order payment to any Prosecutor or Witness in any of

the cases in the said Ordinance mentioned of the compens a t' ion

hereinafter provided in lieu of the compensation by such Ordinance

provided; that is to say, for every such I'rosecutor or Witness the

sum of T h e e Shillings and Sixpencc for every day such person

shall duly attend the Court, until he shall be discharged, and the

further sum of Sixpence per mile for every mile beyond five miles

that any such person shall reside from the Court: Provided that

if any such person shall be under the age of twelve years, the com-

pensation to be paid to such persoon shall be Two Shillings for

each day, and one half of the aforesaid allowance fbr mileage: And

provided also, that such Court may allow to legally qualified Medical

S Practitioners

Practitioner attending as a Medical Witness a fee of One Guinea for every day my such last-mentioned Witness may attend under any s u b p ~ n a or recognizance on behalf of the Crown, and may also allow for any duly qualified Interpreter attending as witness, such

stlprema court map fee not exceeding Ten Shillings and Sixpence, fbr every day such

expensea to Interpreter may attend under any s u b p ~ n a on behalf of the

Witnesws.

Crown, as such Court may deem reasonable.

Allowa~lceforpassage	2. And be it Enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the residing at Port Lincoln, who may attend the said Court in any of the cases in the before-recited Orclinance mentioned, the sum of Four Pounds; and to any person residing at Guichen Bay or Rivoli
money from Port Lin-	Supreme Court aforesaid to d o w to any Prosecutor or Witness,

coln oui&en

Rivoli Bays.

Bay, the sum of Five Pounds, in the place of the sum of Sixpence

per mile hereinbefore directed to be allowed for the passage of such

person fiom any of the places aforesaid.

JOHN MORPHETT, Speaker.

Passed the Legislative Council this Eleventh

day of December, One Thousand

Eight Hundred and Fifty-one.

F. C. SINGLETON,

Clerk of Council.

In the name and on the behalf of Her Majesty I assent to this Act.

H. E. F. YOUNG,

Lieutenant-Governor-

Government House, Adelaide,

26th December, 1851.