Human Rights Act 1993

Human Rights Review Tribunal - Procedure of Tribunal

111: Witnesses' allowances

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When you go to the Tribunal as a witness, you get paid. You get witnesses' fees, allowances, and travelling expenses. The amount you get is based on the scales set by regulations made under the Criminal Procedure Act 2011. When the Tribunal asks you to come as a witness, they tell you how much money you will get. This happens when they give you the summons, or sometime before you have to attend. The amount is an estimate of what you will be entitled to, based on the scales. If someone asked for you to be summoned as a witness, they pay your fees, allowances, and travelling expenses. But if the Tribunal asked you to come on their own, they might make the person who requested the hearing pay, or they might pay from a special fund. The Tribunal decides how much you get based on how far you have to travel and other things. They use special scales to work this out, and they pay you according to those scales.

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Part 4Human Rights Review Tribunal
Procedure of Tribunal

111Witnesses' allowances

  1. Every witness attending before the Tribunal to give evidence pursuant to a summons shall be entitled to be paid witnesses' fees, allowances, and travelling expenses according to the scales for the time being prescribed by regulations made under the Criminal Procedure Act 2011, and those regulations shall apply accordingly.

  2. On each occasion on which the Tribunal issues a summons under section 109(1), the Tribunal, or the person exercising the power of the Tribunal under subsection (3) of that section, shall fix an amount which, on the service of the summons, or at some other reasonable time before the date on which the witness is required to attend, shall be paid or tendered to the witness.

  3. The amount fixed under subsection (2) shall be the estimated amount of the allowances and travelling expenses to which, in the opinion of the Tribunal or person, the witness will be entitled according to the prescribed scales if the witness attends at the time and place specified in the summons.

  4. Where a party to the proceedings has requested the issue of the witness summons, the fees, allowances, and travelling expenses payable to the witness shall be paid by that party.

  5. Where the Tribunal has of its own motion issued the witness summons, the Tribunal may direct that the amount of those fees, allowances, and travelling expenses—

  6. form part of the costs of the proceedings; or
    1. be paid from money appropriated by Parliament for the purpose.
      Notes
      • Section 111(1): amended, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).