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Juries Act Amendment Act 1870

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Preamble.

Short Title.

Common Jurors to be paid according to scale in Schedule.

Payment to be by Registrar or Clerk.

To be paid out of Consolidated Fund.

Exemption of Volunteers not on actual service repealed.

Schedule

Juries Act Amendment Act 1870

Public Act		1870 No 22
Date of assent		12 September 1870

	Title
	Preamble.
1	Short Title.
2	Common Jurors to be paid according to scale in Schedule.
3	Payment to be by Registrar or Clerk.
4	To be paid out of Consolidated Fund.
5	Exemption of Volunteers not on actual service repealed.
	Schedule

An Act to amend “The Juries Act 1868.”

Preamble.

WHEREAS it is expedient that Common Jurors should be paid and that the exemption of Volunteers from serving on Juries should be abolished

Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows—

1 Short Title.

The Short Title of this Act shall be “The Juries Act Amendment Act 1870” and it shall come into operation on the first day of November one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

2 Common Jurors to be paid according to scale in Schedule.

Every person who shall be summoned to attend and shall attend at any Criminal Sitting of the Supreme Court or of any District Court as a Common Juror shall receive for every day and fraction of a day that he shall be in attendance on such Court as a Common Juror and until he shall be discharged from attendance an allowance according to the scale contained in the Schedule to this Act.

3 Payment to be by Registrar or Clerk.

The sum payable under the preceding clause shall be paid to every Juror at the time of his being discharged from attendance by the Registrar or Clerk of the Court.

4 To be paid out of Consolidated Fund.

All sums payable under this Act shall be paid out of the Consolidated Fund.

5 Exemption of Volunteers not on actual service repealed.

So much of “The Juries Act 1868” as provides that Commissioned Officers of the Volunteer Forces not on actual service and Volunteers holding a certificate of efficiency not on actual service granted as in the said Act provided shall he freed and exempted from being summoned and serving on Juries is hereby repealed.

Schedule

	£	s.	d.
Jurors residing within the City or Town in which the Court is held	0	3	0
Jurors residing beyond the Town in which the Court is held but not beyond seven miles from the Court House	0	4	0
Jurors residing beyond seven miles and not beyond twelve miles from the Court House	0	6	0
Jurors residing beyond twelve miles and not beyond twenty miles from the Court House	0	8	0

Juries Act Amendment Act 1870