{"id":"juries-regulations-1983","name":"JURIES REGULATIONS 1983","slug":"juries-regulations-1983","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"nt","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":176913,"registerId":"nt-juries-regulations-1983-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-05","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"JURIES REGULATIONS 1983","content":"NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA\nJURIES REGULATIONS 1983\nAs in force at 1 July 2021\nTable of provisions\n1 Citation ............................................................................................ 1\n4 Jury district of Darwin ...................................................................... 1\n5 Jury district of Alice Springs............................................................. 2\n6 Fee for civil trial ............................................................................... 2\n7 Random selection by computer ....................................................... 3\n8 Fees ................................................................................................ 3\n9 Fares ............................................................................................... 4\n10 Form of acknowledgement .............................................................. 4\n11 Transitional matters for Juries Amendment Regulations 2007 ........ 4\nSchedule 2\nENDNOTES\n\n\n\nNORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA\n____________________\nAs in force at 1 July 2021\n____________________\nJURIES REGULATIONS 1983\nRegulations under the Juries Act 1962\n1 Citation\nThese Regulations may be cited as the Juries Regulations 1983.\n4 Jury district of Darwin\n(1) For section 20 of the Act, the jury district of Darwin comprises the\narea of land in the following divisions:\n(a) Blain;\n(b) Brennan;\n(c) Casuarina;\n(d) Drysdale;\n(e) Fannie Bay;\n(f) Fong Lim;\n(g) Goyder;\n(h) Johnston;\n(i) Karama;\n(j) Nelson;\n(k) Nightcliff;\n(l) Port Darwin;\n(m) Sanderson;\n(ma) Spillett;\n(n) Wanguri.\n\nJuries Regulations 1983 2\n(2) In this regulation:\ndivision, see section 3 of the Electoral Act 2004.\n5 Jury district of Alice Springs\n(1) For section 20 of the Act, the jury district of Alice Springs comprises\nthe area of land in the municipality of Alice Springs.\n(2) In this regulation:\nmunicipality, see section 15 of the Local Government Act 2019.\n6 Fee for civil trial\n(1) For section 8(1) of the Act, the prescribed fee is:\n(a) if the trial lasts 9 days or less – 240 monetary units for each\nday of the trial; or\n(b) if the trial lasts 10 days or more – 480 monetary units for each\nday of the trial.\n(1A) The fee is to be calculated based on the value of a monetary unit\non the first day of the trial.\n(2) For section 8(2) of the Act, the party liable to the fee:\n(a) must, before the court sits on the first day of the trial, submit a\nwritten estimate of the number of days the trial will last and\npay an amount equal to the prescribed fee for a trial of the\nlength estimated; and\n(b) if the estimate is exceeded – must, before the trial resumes on\nthe first day on which the estimate is exceeded, submit a\nrevised estimate and pay an amount equal to the prescribed\nfee for a trial of the length estimated less the amount already\npaid; and\n(c) if the revised estimate is exceeded – must, before the trial\nresumes on the first day on which the revised estimate is\nexceeded, submit a further revised estimate and pay an\namount equal to the prescribed fee for a trial of the length\nestimated less the amount already paid; and\n(d) must continue as indicated above if the trial lasts longer than\nthe period estimated in the last estimate submitted under this\nregulation.\n\nJuries Regulations 1983 3\n(3) If a court sits with the jury for part of a day, the day is counted as a\nwhole day for subregulations (1) and (2).\n(4) If it appears, at the end of a trial, that the amount paid under\nsubregulation (2) exceeds the fee actually payable under\nsubregulation (1), the amount overpaid must be refunded to the\nparty.\n7 Random selection by computer\nFor the purposes of section 27 of the Act, the prescribed manner for\nthe random selection by computer of the persons to be summoned\nfrom those whose names appear in the jury list for Darwin or the\njury list for Alice Springs is any system for random selection by\ncomputer which, for a statistical analysis over a population of\n120,000, gives a variation from the expected value of less than plus\nor minus 0.5% based on percentiles of 12,000.\n8 Fees\n(1) For section 60 of the Act, an employee who continues to receive\nordinary pay and who has no deductions from other leave\nentitlements while on leave to attend for jury service is taken to\nhave received payment for attendance.\nExample for subregulation (1)\nIf, under by-law 20 of the Public Sector Employment and Management By-laws,\nthe Chief Executive Officer releases an employee for jury service without\ndeduction from pay or leave credits, that employee is taken to have received\npayment.\n(2) However, if the sheriff or deputy sheriff is satisfied that\nsubsection (1) does not apply, the payment a juror or talesman is\nentitled to receive for attendance is:\n(a) for each day, or part day, of service as a juror for a trial:\n(i) 60 monetary units – if the trial lasts 9 days or less; or\n(ii) 120 monetary units – if the trial lasts 10 days or more;\nand\n(b) 20 monetary units for each day, or part day, the person\nattends for service, but does not serve as a juror for a trial.\n(2A) If a trial commences before 1 July in a year and concludes after\n1 July of that year, the juror or talesman is entitled to receive\npayment as if the trial had commenced after 1 July of that year.\n\nJuries Regulations 1983 4\n(3) If it is proved to the satisfaction of the sheriff that as result of\nattendance on a day, or part day, the juror or talesman has suffered\nfinancial loss, the juror or talesman is entitled to receive an\nadditional amount for that attendance equal to the lesser of:\n(a) the amount by which the loss exceeds the amount payable\nunder subregulation (2); and\n(b) either:\n(i) 30 monetary units – if the person serves as a juror for a\ntrial; or\n(ii) 20 monetary units – in any other case.\n9 Fares\n(1) A person whose residence is more than one kilometre from the\nrelevant Supreme Court is entitled to be paid for each journey made\nbetween the person's residence and the Court to attend the Court\nas a juror or talesman or to return home afterwards.\n(2) The fare payable under this regulation for a journey is:\n(a) if public transport is available – the amount payable by the\njuror or talesman for using public transport for the journey; or\n(b) in any other case – an amount calculated at 0.27 monetary\nunits for each kilometre of the journey, measured along the\nshortest practicable road route.\n10 Form of acknowledgement\n(1) For the purposes of section 68(2)(d) of the Act, the form of\nacknowledgement in answer to a jury summons, shall be in\naccordance with the form set out in Schedule 2.\n(2) The form referred to in subregulation (1) shall be completed in\naccordance with such directions and instructions as are specified in\nthe form.\n11 Transitional matters for Juries Amendment Regulations 2007\nIf immediately before the commencement of the Juries Amendment\nRegulations 2007 (the 2007 regulations) a trial lasting 10 days or\nmore has commenced but has not concluded:\n(a) for regulation 6 the prescribed amounts must be re-calculated\nas if the trial had commenced after the commencement of the\n2007 regulations; and\n\nJuries Regulations 1983 5\n(b) for regulation 8 the juror or talesman is entitled to receive\npayment as if the trial had commenced after the\ncommencement of the 2007 regulations.\n\nSchedule 2\nJuries Regulations 1983 6\nSchedule 2\nregulation 10(1)\nNORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA\nJuries Act 1962\nsection 68(2)(d)\nACKNOWLEDGEMENT BY JUROR OF RECEIPT OF JURY\nSUMMONS\n1. Fill in the personal details as requested below.\n2. Tear off and return the acknowledgement, in the envelope provided, to\nthe Sheriff.\n3. Please bring the part of the summons retained by you to the Court on\nthe day appointed for you to attend.\n______________________________________________________________\nI,.........................………........., hereby acknowledge receipt of this summons.\n.....……...............\nSignature\nHome address:......………………………….….....................Phone..……….......\nPostal address: (if different from home address)\n..................................……………………………………………….........................\nWork address:..................………………………………..........Phone.....………....\nDated:\n\nENDNOTES\nJuries Regulations 1983 7\nENDNOTES\n1 KEY\nKey to abbreviations\namd = amended od = order\napp = appendix om = omitted\nbl = by-law pt = Part\nch = Chapter r = regulation/rule\ncl = clause rem = remainder\ndiv = Division renum = renumbered\nexp = expires/expired rep = repealed\nf = forms s = section\nGaz = Gazette sch = Schedule\nhdg = heading sdiv = Subdivision\nins = inserted SL = Subordinate Legislation\nlt = long title sub = substituted\nnc = not commenced\n2 LIST OF LEGISLATION\nJuries Regulations (SL No. 41, 1983)\nNotified 21 October 1983\nCommenced 21 October 1983\nAmendment of the Juries Regulations (SL No. 4, 1987)\nNotified 11 February 1987\nCommenced 11 February 1987\nJuries Regulations (SL No. 40, 1989)\nNotified 10 January 1990\nCommenced 10 January 1990\nJuries Amendment Act 1990 (Act No. 63, 1990)\nAssent date 14 December 1990\nCommenced 14 December 1990\nAmendment of Juries Regulations (SL No. 30, 1997)\nNotified 12 November 1997\nCommenced 12 November 1997\nStatute Law Revision Act (No. 2) 2003 (Act No. 44, 2003)\nAssent date 7 July 2003\nCommenced 7 July 2003\nElectoral (Consequential Amendments) Act 2004 (Act No. 12, 2004)\nAssent date 1 March 2004\nCommenced 15 March 2004 (s 2, s 2 Electoral Act 2004 (Act No. 11, 2004)\nand Gaz S6, 15 March 2004)\nJuries Amendment Regulations 2007 (SL No. 27, 2007)\nNotified 22 August 2007\nCommenced 22 August 2007\n\nENDNOTES\nJuries Regulations 1983 8\nJuries Amendment Regulations 2010 (SL No. 27, 2010)\nNotified 29 November 2010\nCommenced 29 November 2010\nJuries Amendment Regulations 2017 (SL No. 6, 2017)\nNotified 12 April 2017\nCommenced 12 April 2017\nJuries Amendment Regulations 2019 (SL No. 8, 2019)\nNotified 19 June 2019\nCommenced 1 July 2019 (r 2)\nLocal Government Act 2019 (Act No. 39, 2019)\nAssent date 13 December 2019\nCommenced pt 8.6: 1 July 2022; rem: 1 July 2021 (Gaz S27,\n30 June 2021)\nAmending Legislation\nStatute Law Revision Act 2020 (Act No. 26, 2020)\nAssent date 19 November 2020\nCommenced 20 November 2020 (s 2)\nLocal Government Amendment Act 2021 (Act No. 15, 2021)\nAssent date 25 May 2021\nCommenced 26 May 2021 (s 2)\n3 GENERAL AMENDMENTS\nGeneral amendments of a formal nature (which are not referred to in the table\nof amendments to this reprint) are made by the Interpretation Legislation\nAmendment Act 2018 (Act No. 22, 2018) to: rr 1, 4 and 5.\n4 LIST OF AMENDMENTS\nr 2 rep No. 27, 2007, r 3\nr 3 amd Act No. 63, 1990, s 3; Act No. 44, 2003, s 6; Act No. 12, 2004, s 7\nrep No. 27, 2010, r 3\nr 4 amd No. 40, 1989; Act No. 63, 1990, s 3; No. 30, 1997; No. 27, 2007, r 4;\nNo. 6, 2017, r 3\nsub No. 27, 2010, r 3\nr 5 amd No. 4, 1987; Act No. 63, 1990, s 3; No. 27, 2010, r 4; Act No. 39, 2019,\ns 370\nr 6 sub No. 27, 2007, r 5\namd. No. 8, 2019, r 4\nr 7 amd No. 27, 2007, r 6\nr 8 sub No. 27, 2007, r 7\namd No. 8, 2019, r 5\nr 9 sub No. 27, 2007, r 7\namd No. 8, 2019, r 6\nr 11 ins No. 27, 2007, r 8\nsch 1 rep No. 27, 2007, r 9\nsch 2 amd No. 27, 2007, r 10","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"The regulations bear the 1983 title but were remade in 2019 and only commenced in 2021 — a gap of nearly two years after being made. This suggests the scope or content was likely updated or modernised from the original 1983 intent, though without access to the full text of the provisions it is not possible to identify exactly what changed."},"complexity_factors":["Administrative/procedural in nature — typically straightforward","Subordinate legislation (regulations) rather than primary legislation — narrower in scope","The metadata provided is minimal, limiting full analysis of specific provisions","The gap between the 1983 title and 2019 remake date may cause some confusion about which version applies","Commencement date (2021) is later than the making date (2019), which requires attention when determining when rules took effect"],"plain_english_summary":"The Juries Regulations 1983 (remade 2019; in force 1 July 2021) set the practical rules for jury service in the Australian Capital Territory. They govern how people are summoned, excused, remunerated and managed, affecting jurors, court staff, lawyers and judges. These administrative rules shape citizen participation in the ACT justice system."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"Since 1983 the regulations have been amended to alter prescribed fee amounts and payment mechanics, introduce/define computerised selection standards and transitional rules, and update territorial references (see amendments listed in the endnotes and amendments to regs 4–6, 7–9, 11). These amendments adjust operational detail and financial obligations without expanding the Regulations' core subject matter."},"complexity_factors":["Multiple payment calculations and triggers for civil‑trial fees, including prepayment, revised estimates and recalculation (reg 6)","Interaction between employer continued pay and statutory juror payments creating substitution choices (reg 8(1)–(2))","Sheriff's evaluative discretion to displace the ordinary‑pay rule (reg 8(2))","Technical statistical standard for computerised random selection (variation tolerance) (reg 7)","Two methods for travel reimbursement (public‑transport fare or per‑km rate) and a distance threshold (reg 9)","Transitional recalculation rules for trials spanning regulatory change (reg 11)"],"plain_english_summary":"These Regulations set the practical rules for jury administration in the Northern Territory: they define the Darwin and Alice Springs jury districts, prescribe computerised random selection standards, fix the civil‑trial fee mechanism and juror attendance payments, provide travel reimbursement rules, and supply the acknowledgement form. \n\nMechanically, the party liable for civil‑trial fees must estimate and prepay fees (reg 6); jurors either keep ordinary pay or receive statutory attendance and loss payments (reg 8); the sheriff can decide payment applicability; random selection must meet a defined statistical tolerance (reg 7)."},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[],"contradictions":[]},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. Add credits at https://vercel.com/d?to=%2F%5Bteam%5D%2F%7E%2Fai%3Fmodal%3Dtop-up to continue.","source":"analysis-cron"},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The regulations remain tightly focused on their original purpose: operational details for jury administration in the Northern Territory. While fees have been updated via amendments (notably in 2007 and 2019), the scope has not expanded beyond defining jury districts, setting fees, and prescribing administrative procedures."},"complexity_factors":["Short length (11 regulations plus schedule)","Minimal cross-referencing (primarily references to the parent Juries Act 1962)","Straightforward conditional logic (if/then structures for fees based on trial length)","Only 2 defined terms ('division' and 'municipality')","Simple mathematical calculations for fees and travel reimbursements","Single transitional provision dealing with a specific 2007 amendment"],"plain_english_summary":"These regulations set out the practical details for how juries work in the Northern Territory's Supreme Court.\n\n**What it covers:**\n\n*   **Where juries come from:** The regulations define two \"jury districts\" — Darwin and Alice Springs. For Darwin, this means people living in specific electoral divisions (like Casuarina, Nightcliff, and Fannie Bay) can be called. For Alice Springs, it's anyone in the municipality.\n\n*   **Costs for civil trials:** If you want a jury for a civil case (like a personal injury claim), you must pay a fee. It's 240 \"monetary units\" per day for trials up to 9 days, or 480 monetary units per day for longer trials. You have to estimate the trial length upfront and pay in advance, with top-up payments if it runs longer. (A \"monetary unit\" is a set dollar amount that gets updated over time to account for inflation.)\n\n*   **Juror pay:** Jurors get paid for their time. If your employer keeps paying your normal wages while you serve, you don't get extra from the court. Otherwise, you receive 60 monetary units per day for short trials (under 10 days) or 120 for long trials. You also get 20 monetary units for days you're on standby but not actually picked for a trial. If serving costs you money (like lost freelance income), you can claim extra up to set limits.\n\n*   **Travel costs:** If you live more than a kilometre from the courthouse, you get reimbursed for public transport or paid 0.27 monetary units per kilometre if you drive.\n\n*   **How jurors are picked:** The regulations set a technical standard for computer random selection — essentially ensuring the system is truly random with very small statistical variation.\n\n*   **Paperwork:** There's a standard form (in Schedule 2) that people must fill out to confirm they received their jury summons.\n\n**Who it affects:** Anyone living in Darwin or Alice Springs who might be called for jury duty; people requesting juries in civil trials; and employers of jurors."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/juries-regulations-1983","history":"/api/acts/juries-regulations-1983/history","analysis":"/api/acts/juries-regulations-1983/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/juries-regulations-1983/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/juries-regulations-1983/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/juries-regulations-1983/documents"}}