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Sports Tribunal Act 2006

Sports Tribunal of New Zealand - Jurisdiction and procedure

43: Witnesses’ allowances

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"Getting paid for being a witness at the Sports Tribunal"

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When you go to the Sports Tribunal of New Zealand as a witness, you are entitled to be paid for your time and expenses. You will get paid according to the rules set out in the Criminal Procedure Act 2011. The Tribunal will decide how much you should get paid based on how far you have to travel and other expenses.

When the Tribunal asks you to come and give evidence, they will also decide how much money you should get before you come. This is so you can cover your costs. The amount they decide is an estimate of what you will be owed if you attend the Tribunal at the time and place they specify.

If someone asked for you to be called as a witness, they will have to pay your fees and expenses. But if the Tribunal asked you to come on their own, they might ask the person who requested you to pay, or they might pay you from a special fund.

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Part 3Sports Tribunal of New Zealand
Jurisdiction and procedure

43Witnesses’ allowances

  1. Every witness attending before the Tribunal to give evidence pursuant to a summons is 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 apply accordingly.

  2. On each occasion on which the Tribunal issues a summons under section 41, the Tribunal, or the person exercising the power of the Tribunal under subsection (3) of that section, must fix an amount that, on the service of the summons, or at some other reasonable time before the date on which the witness is required to attend, must be paid or tendered to the witness.

  3. The amount fixed under subsection (2) must 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. If a party to the proceedings has requested the issue of the witness summons, then the fees, allowances, and travelling expenses payable to the witness must be paid by that party.

  5. If 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 43(1): amended, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).