Juries Act 1981

Miscellaneous provisions

30: Payment of jurors

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"Getting paid for being on a jury"

You get paid for being a juror. You are entitled to fees and expenses for each day you attend court. The court decides how much you get paid. The chief executive can increase the amount if they think it is necessary.

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29D: Civil cases, or

"What happens in civil cases with majority verdicts"

31: Payment of fee for jury in civil cases, or

30Payment of jurors

Every juror who attends the court when duly summoned shall be entitled to such fees and expenses by way of compensation as may be prescribed by the jury rules in respect of each day when the juror is required to attend and does attend, including attendance at a view.
The jury rules prescribing those fees and expenses may authorise the chief executive, if satisfied in a particular case that it is desirable to do so, to increase a sum otherwise payable under those rules.

Compare

1908 No 90 ss 157, 158
1919 No 4 s 2

Notes

Section 30(2): inserted, on 25 December 2008, by section 20 of the Juries Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 40).