Western Australia
Juries Regulations 2008
CONTENTS
Part 1 — Preliminary
1.Citation1
2.Commencement1
Part 2 — Payments for juries in civil trials
3.Prescribed time and amounts2
Part 3 — Fees, allowances and expenses
4.Fees for doing jury service3
5.Travel allowance or expenses3
6.Prescribed class of employer4
7.Juror who is employed under a contract of service4
8.Reimbursement of employer4
9.Juries (Allowances to Jurors) Regulations repealed5
Notes
Compilation table6
Western Australia
Juries Act 1957
Juries Regulations 2008
These regulations come into operation as follows —
(a)Part 1 — on the day on which these regulations are published in the Gazette;
(b)the rest of the regulations — on the day on which the Acts Amendment (Justice) Act 2008 Part 14 comes into operation.
Part 2 — Payments for juries in civil trials
(1)For the purposes of section 44(1) of the Act, the prescribed time is 10.00 a.m. on each day of the civil trial.
(2)For the purposes of section 44(1)(a) of the Act, the prescribed amount is $1 195.
(3)For the purposes of section 44(1)(b) of the Act, the prescribed amount is $147.
(4)For the purposes of section 44(3)(a) of the Act, the prescribed amount is $147.
Part 3 — Fees, allowances
(1)Subject to these regulations, for the purposes of section 58B(5) and (6) of the Act, the sums set out in the Table to this subregulation are prescribed as a fee in respect of doing jury service.
Table of allowances for doing jury service
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10.00 |
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If the time of attendance exceeds one half‑day but does not exceed 3 days, for each day |
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If the time of attendance exceeds 3 days, for each day after the third day |
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(2)If the summoning officer is satisfied that a person doing jury service has by reason of so serving lost income in an amount greater than a fee prescribed under subregulation (1), the summoning officer may pay the person a fee that equals that loss.
5.Travel allowance or expenses
(1)For the purposes of section 58B(2) of the Act, the fee paid by a person doing jury service for travelling on a public conveyance each way between the person’s usual residence and the court is prescribed as an expense.
(2)For the purposes of section 58B(2) of the Act, when a public conveyance is not available for travel each way by a person doing jury service between the person’s usual residence and the court, the prescribed allowance for road travel each way between the person’s usual residence and the court is 37.5 cents per kilometre.
6.Prescribed class of employer
For the purposes of section 58B(4) of the Act, the following are prescribed as a class of employer —
(a)a Government department;
(b)a State instrumentality;
(c)a State trading concern.
7.Juror who is employed under a contract of service
(1)A person doing jury service who is employed by an employer under a contract of service other than an employer in a class prescribed under regulation 6 must give the summoning officer written advice of the name and business address of his or her employer.
Penalty: a fine of $1 000.
(2)The advice referred to in subregulation (1) must be given no later than 14 days after completing the service.
(1)If the employer under a contract of service of a person who does jury service (the juror) applies to the summoning officer under section 58B(4) of the Act, the summoning officer is to pay to the employer any fee otherwise payable to the juror under these regulations for the juror’s service.
(2)An application under subregulation (1), verified by a statutory declaration, must provide the following information in support of the claim —
(a)the employer’s Australian Business Number;
(b)the earnings paid by the employer to the juror for any period that the juror did jury service;
(c)the name of the juror;
(d)the juror’s occupation with the employer;
(e)the hourly rate paid by the employer to the juror;
(f)the number of hours of service of the juror lost by the employer as a result of the juror doing jury service.
9.Juries (Allowances to Jurors) Regulations repealed
The Juries (Allowances to Jurors) Regulations are repealed.
1This is a compilation of the Juries Regulations 2008. The following table contains information about those regulations.
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Citation |
Gazettal |
Commencement |
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Juries Regulations 2008 |
26 Sep 2008 p. 4393-401 |
r. 1 and 2: 26 Sep 2008 (see r. 2(a)); |