AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

JURIES FEES REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

No. 46 of 1982

	The Regulations are made under the Juries Ordinance 1967 for the purpose of increasing the scale of payments to jurors in trials in the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory.

	The Regulations replace the previous scale set in 1974.  The new scale is based on the movement in the Consumer Price Index since that time.

Regulation 1	provides that the Regulations shall come into operation on 4 October 1982.

Regulation 2	repeals the Schedule to the Juries Fees Regulations and substitutes a new Schedule containing the increased scale of payments to jurors.

Authorised by the Minister of State for Communications acting for and on behalf of the Attorney-General