S.I. No. 92/1962 - Coroners Act, 1962 (Fees and Expenses) Regulations, 1962.

1. Allowance for loss of time.

Allowance payable where the period of necessary absence from employment or business (or from home in the case of category (iii) is 4 hours or more

(i) Salary or wage earners

10s. a day

(ii) Self-employed

20s.,,,,

(iii) Housewives, domestics and unemployed

5s.,,,,

(iv) School-children

Nil

Half the allowance as above is payable where the period of necessary absence is less than 4 hours.

Actual loss of wages or salary, if greater than the amount of allowance payable as above, may be recouped in lieu thereof on production of a certificate from the employer as to the witness's wages or salary and the actual sum he has permanently lost by reason of attendance.

2. Subsistence allowances.

(i) Day allowance (6 a.m.—8 p.m.)

Where period of necessary absence from home or employment or business is 5 hours or more, 8s. 6d.

Where period of necessary absence from home or employment or business is 2 hours or more but less than 5 hours, 5s.

Where period of necessary absence from home or employment or business is less than 2 hours, Nil.

(ii) Night allowance (8 p.m.—6 a.m.), d1 7s. 6d.

The night allowance is payable only in respect of unavoidable overnight absence from usual place of residence.

3. Travelling expenses.

Third class rail fare or bus fare. Payment may, however, be made at whichever of the following rates is applicable in respect of any part of the journey where public transport was not reasonably practicable—

Hired motor car — not exceeding

1s.

3d. a mile each way

Own motor car ,, ,,

9d.,, ,, ,, ,,

Motor bicycle ,, ,,

4d.,, ,, ,, ,,

Horse drawn vehicle ,, ,,

5d.,, ,, ,, ,,

Bicycle or on foot ,, ,,

3d.,, ,, ,, ,,

An allowance will not be payable in respect of more than one case on the same day.

D

Expenses in connection with removal or custody of a body.

All expenses which, in the opinion of the appropriate local authority, are necessarily and reasonably incurred in the removal or custody of a body in accordance with the direction of a coroner.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 31st day of May, 1962.

CHARLES J. HAUGHEY,

Minister for Justice.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

These regulations prescribe various fees and expenses for the purposes of the

Coroners Act, 1962

, viz. the fee to be paid to a coroner who holds an inquest outside his own district ; the fee chargeable by a coroner or a county registrar for furnishing copies of inquest documents; and the fees and expenses payable in resepct of post-mortem and special examinations, the attendance of witnesses at inquests and the removal or custody of a body.

4. For assisting at post-mortem examination—

(i) registered medical practitioner, £3 3s.

(ii) lay person, £1.

5. For special examination arranged under section 33 (2) of the Act, £1 15s. for each hour or part of an hour taken to conduct the examination.

B

(a) Expenses of registered medical practitioners for attendance at inquests (other than a person appointed under section 33 (2) of the Act).

S.I. No. 92 of 1962.

CORONERS ACT, 1962 (FEES AND EXPENSES) REGULATIONS, 1962.

I, CHARLES J. HAUGHEY, Minister for Justice, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by subsection (1) of

section 3

of the

Coroners Act, 1962

(No. 9 of 1962), after, in relation to the fees and expenses to be prescribed under section 57 of that Act, consultation with the Minister for Local Government, hereby make the following regulations