This order may be cited as the Community Magistrates (Remuneration and Allowances) Order 1998.

This order comes into force on 1 February 1999.

A Community Magistrate (other than the Chief Community Magistrate) is to be paid, for every day on which he or she attends the court in his or her capacity as a Community Magistrate, remuneration by way of a fee of $14.21 for each quarter hour or part of a quarter hour, but no more than $455 per day.

Where a Community Magistrate, for the purpose of attending a sitting of the court or for the carrying out in any other respect of his or her duties as a Community Magistrate, is required to be absent from the court he or she usually attends, there is payable to that Community Magistrate by way of allowance his or her actual reasonable out-of-pocket expenses (including fares and other locomotion expenses).

A Community Magistrate who uses a car or other private means of conveyance for a journey or any stage of a journey in respect of which an allowance under clause 3 is payable to the Community Magistrate is entitled to be paid a car reimbursement allowance.

The rates of reimbursement payable under this clause are in accordance with the standard rates prescribed by the Inland Revenue Department.

No payment of allowances to which this order applies is to be made until the Community Magistrate claiming the payment has signed a statement, certified by the Registrar or other responsible officer of the court concerned, setting out the particulars of the amounts payable.

Vouchers for every item of out-of-pocket expenses claimed under clause 3 (not being an item under which fares and locomotion expenses in public conveyances are claimed) must be attached to the statement.