7Expenses of witnesses

7 Expenses of witnesses

(1)  For the purposes of section 17 of the Act, the following is the prescribed scale:

| Item | Matter | Prescribed scale | | 1. | For meals, travelling and accommodation | the same rate and on the same terms as is prescribed from time to time for the equivalent allowance in clause 3 of Part IV of the Tasmanian State Service Award made by the Tasmanian Industrial Commission | | 2. | For loss of salary, wages or income resulting from a person's attendance at the Court, if the person is not an expert witness (for each hour, or part of an hour) | the actual loss incurred, up to a maximum of 2.5% of the seasonally adjusted average weekly total earnings of a full-time adult employee in Tasmania, as published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in the most recent issue of Catalogue Number 6302.0 | | 3. | For loss of salary, wages or income resulting from a person's attendance at the Court, if the person is an expert witness – | | | | (a) if there is a professional body governing the professional discipline, in relation to which the expert witness has attended the Court, and that body applies a rate according to a scale applicable to that discipline | that rate or scale | | | (b) if there is no such scale | up to the actual loss of salary, wages or income incurred by the person as a result of the person's attendance at the Court as an expert witness |

(2)  Compensation for loss of salary, wages or income is not payable unless the person incurs an actual loss of salary, wages or income as a result of attending Court.