AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

JURIES FEES REGULATIONS

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 4 of 1974

	The purpose of these Regulations is to increase the scale of payments to jurors fixed by the Juries Fees Regulations 1968 No. 3 made under the Juries Ordinance 1967.

2.	The present scale of payments has been unaltered since 1966, the Regulations of 1968 made under the then new Juries Ordinance having made no increase in the rates of payment provided under the Regulations that they replaced.

3.	The increases made by the amendments are as follows:

•	for attendance for less than four hours
-	from $4 to $10
•	for attendance for each of the first three days
-	from $8 to $20
•	for attendance for each day after the third day
-	from $10 to $30
•	for travelling expenses in excess of three miles
-	from 10c to 25c per mile.