sec.24Attendance allowance for non-professional witness

sec.24 Attendance allowance for non-professional witness

The amount of the attendance allowance that is to be paid to a non-professional witness for each day or part of a day of the witness’s necessary absence to attend court is— if the witness is under 16—$47.75; or if the witness is 16 or older—$95.70. In subsection (1) , a reference to the non-professional witness’s necessary absence to attend court is a reference to the period for which the attendance causes the non-professional witness to be— necessarily absent from the witness’s place of employment, practice or residence as mentioned in section 21 (4) (a) (i) ; or necessarily unavailable to undertake the witness’s usual work as mentioned in section 21 (4) (a) (ii) . s 24 amd 2020 SL No. 143 s 119 ; 2021 SL No. 84 s 118 ; 2022 SL No. 79 s 171 ; 2023 SL No. 60 s 14 ; 2024 SL No. 4 s 18 ; 2024 SL No. 62 s 16 ; 2025 SL No. 44 s 14 (sec.24-ssec.1) The amount of the attendance allowance that is to be paid to a non-professional witness for each day or part of a day of the witness’s necessary absence to attend court is— if the witness is under 16—$47.75; or if the witness is 16 or older—$95.70. (sec.24-ssec.2) In subsection (1) , a reference to the non-professional witness’s necessary absence to attend court is a reference to the period for which the attendance causes the non-professional witness to be— necessarily absent from the witness’s place of employment, practice or residence as mentioned in section 21 (4) (a) (i) ; or necessarily unavailable to undertake the witness’s usual work as mentioned in section 21 (4) (a) (ii) .

• (a) if the witness is under 16—$47.75; or
• (b) if the witness is 16 or older—$95.70.
• (a) necessarily absent from the witness’s place of employment, practice or residence as mentioned in section 21 (4) (a) (i) ; or
• (b) necessarily unavailable to undertake the witness’s usual work as mentioned in section 21 (4) (a) (ii) .