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Inquiries Act 2013

Duties, powers, immunities, and privileges - Evidential matters

25: Expenses of witnesses and other participants

You could also call this:

"Getting paid for costs when you're a witness or take part in an inquiry"

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If you are called to be a witness at an inquiry, you are entitled to be paid for your reasonable costs and travelling expenses. The amount you get paid is decided by the inquiry. You can also get paid if you participate in an inquiry in another way, but this is up to the inquiry to decide if they want to reimburse you for your costs and travelling expenses.

If the inquiry calls you to be a witness, they usually have to pay your expenses, but if someone else asks for you to be a witness, they might have to pay your expenses unless the inquiry agrees to pay. The inquiry decides how much you get paid for your expenses.

You get paid for things like travel costs when you are called to be a witness or participate in an inquiry, and the inquiry decides what is a reasonable cost.

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Part 3Duties, powers, immunities, and privileges
Evidential matters

25Expenses of witnesses and other participants

  1. Persons summoned to attend an inquiry as witnesses are entitled to be paid for their reasonable costs and travelling expenses, at the level determined by the inquiry.

  2. An inquiry may reimburse other persons who participate in an inquiry for their reasonable costs and travelling expenses at the level the inquiry determines.

  3. The payment required by subsection (1) must be made, if the witness is summoned,—

  4. by an inquiry on its own initiative, by that inquiry; or
    1. by an inquiry on the application of any person participating in the inquiry, by that person, unless the inquiry itself agrees to do so.