Payment of Fees to Jurors (Amendment) Regulations, 2016

L.N. 105 of 2016

CRIMINAL CODE

(CAP. 9)

Payment of Fees to Jurors (Amendment) Regulations, 2016

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 616(3) of the

Criminal Code, the Minister for Justice, Culture and Local

Government, with the concurrence of the Minister of Finance, has

made the following regulations:-

(1)

The title of these regulations is the Payment of Citation and

Fees to Jurors (Amendment) Regulations, 2016 and these regulations commencement.

shall be read and construed as one with the Payment of Fees to Jurors S.L. 9.06.

Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations".

(2) These regulations shall come into force on such date as the

Minister responsible for justice may, by order in the Gazette,

establish.

Regulation 3 of the principal regulations shall be Substitutes

regulation 3 of

substituted by the following

the principal

regulations.

"3.

The registrar shall, as soon as may be after every

trial by jury, pay to a juror a fee of thirty euro (€30) for every

day of service, or part of such day, in of which the said juror was

not in receipt of any salary or wages from his employment when

the trial does not extend beyond fifteen working days and forty

euro (€40) for every additional day of service, or part of such

day, as above mentioned beyond the said fifteen working days.".

Regulation 4 of the principal regulations shall be Substitutes

regulation 4 of

substituted by the following

the principal

regulations.

"4.

The registrar shall, as soon as may be after every

trial by jury, pay to a juror a fee of ten euro (€10) for every day

of service, or part of such day, in of which the said juror was in

receipt of -

(a)

any salary or wages from his employment; or

(b)

a pension; or

(c)

if the juror was unemployed; or

(d)

if the juror was a housewife.".

B

Regulation 5 of the principal regulations shall be deleted.

Deletes

regulation 5 of

the principal

regulations.

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