6Expenses of witnesses

6 Expenses of witnesses

6 Expenses of witnesses

(1) Every witness summoned as aforesaid shall be entitled to be paid at the time of service of such notice or order the witness’s reasonable expenses consequent upon the witness’s attendance in obedience thereto according to the witness’s condition or profession, to be calculated in accordance with the scale in force for the time being for the payment of witnesses in actions in the Supreme Court.

(2) The expenses of any witness summoned at the instance of a party shall be defrayed by such party; but if the witness be summoned for any public inquiry to be examined either by the Council or Assembly or by a committee, the witness’s expenses shall be paid by the Colonial Treasurer out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund on the receipt by the Treasurer of a written authority in that behalf signed by the Clerk of the Parliaments or Clerk of the Assembly or Chair of the Committee respectively, according to the nature of the summons.

s 6: Am 2007 No 27, Sch 1.35 [2].