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These Regulations may be cited as the Juries Regulations 1983.
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These Regulations may be cited as the Juries Regulations 1983.
For section 20 of the Act, the jury district of Darwin comprises the area of land in the following divisions:
Blain;
Brennan;
Casuarina;
Drysdale;
Fannie Bay;
Fong Lim;
Goyder;
Johnston;
Karama;
Nelson;
Nightcliff;
Port Darwin;
Sanderson;
Spillett;
Wanguri.
In this regulation:
division, see section 3 of the Electoral Act 2004.
For section 20 of the Act, the jury district of Alice Springs comprises the area of land in the municipality of Alice Springs.
In this regulation:
municipality, see section 15 of the Local Government
Act 2019.
For section 8(1) of the Act, the prescribed fee is:
if the trial lasts 9 days or less – 240 monetary units for each day of the trial; or
if the trial lasts 10 days or more – 480 monetary units for each day of the trial.
The fee is to be calculated based on the value of a monetary unit on the first day of the trial.
For section 8(2) of the Act, the party liable to the fee:
must, before the court sits on the first day of the trial, submit a written estimate of the number of days the trial will last and pay an amount equal to the prescribed fee for a trial of the length estimated; and
if the estimate is exceeded – must, before the trial resumes on the first day on which the estimate is exceeded, submit a revised estimate and pay an amount equal to the prescribed fee for a trial of the length estimated less the amount already paid; and
if the revised estimate is exceeded – must, before the trial resumes on the first day on which the revised estimate is exceeded, submit a further revised estimate and pay an amount equal to the prescribed fee for a trial of the length estimated less the amount already paid; and
must continue as indicated above if the trial lasts longer than the period estimated in the last estimate submitted under this regulation.
If a court sits with the jury for part of a day, the day is counted as a whole day for subregulations (1) and (2).
If it appears, at the end of a trial, that the amount paid under subregulation (2) exceeds the fee actually payable under subregulation (1), the amount overpaid must be refunded to the party.
For the purposes of section 27 of the Act, the prescribed manner for the random selection by computer of the persons to be summoned from those whose names appear in the jury list for Darwin or the jury list for Alice Springs is any system for random selection by computer which, for a statistical analysis over a population of 120,000, gives a variation from the expected value of less than plus or minus 0.5% based on percentiles of 12,000.
For section 60 of the Act, an employee who continues to receive ordinary pay and who has no deductions from other leave entitlements while on leave to attend for jury service is taken to have received payment for attendance.
Example for subregulation
If, under by-law 20 of the
Public Sector Employment and Management By-laws, the Chief Executive
Officer releases an employee for jury service without deduction from pay or leave credits, that employee is taken to have received payment.
However, if the sheriff or deputy sheriff is satisfied that subsection (1) does not apply, the payment a juror or talesman is entitled to receive for attendance is:
for each day, or part day, of service as a juror for a trial:
60 monetary units – if the trial lasts 9 days or less; or
120 monetary units – if the trial lasts 10 days or more; and
20 monetary units for each day, or part day, the person attends for service, but does not serve as a juror for a trial.
If a trial commences before 1 July in a year and concludes after 1 July of that year, the juror or talesman is entitled to receive payment as if the trial had commenced after 1 July of that year.
If it is proved to the satisfaction of the sheriff that as result of attendance on a day, or part day, the juror or talesman has suffered financial loss, the juror or talesman is entitled to receive an additional amount for that attendance equal to the lesser of:
the amount by which the loss exceeds the amount payable under subregulation (2); and
either:
30 monetary units – if the person serves as a juror for a trial; or
20 monetary units – in any other case.
A person whose residence is more than one kilometre from the relevant Supreme Court is entitled to be paid for each journey made between the person's residence and the Court to attend the Court as a juror or talesman or to return home afterwards.
The fare payable under this regulation for a journey is:
if public transport is available – the amount payable by the juror or talesman for using public transport for the journey; or
in any other case – an amount calculated at 0.27 monetary units for each kilometre of the journey, measured along the shortest practicable road route.
For the purposes of section 68(2)(d) of the Act, the form of acknowledgement in answer to a jury summons, shall be in accordance with the form set out in Schedule 2.
The form referred to in subregulation (1) shall be completed in accordance with such directions and instructions as are specified in the form.
If immediately before the commencement of the Juries Amendment
Regulations 2007 (the 2007 regulations) a trial lasting 10 days or more has commenced but has not concluded:
for regulation 6 the prescribed amounts must be re-calculated as if the trial had commenced after the commencement of the
2007 regulations; and
for regulation 8 the juror or talesman is entitled to receive payment as if the trial had commenced after the commencement of the
2007 regulations.
Schedule 2
regulation 10(1)
NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA
Juries Act 1962
section 68(2)(d)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT BY JUROR OF RECEIPT OF JURY SUMMONS
1. Fill in the personal details as requested below.
2. Tear off and return the acknowledgement, in the envelope provided, to the Sheriff.
3. Please bring the part of the summons retained by you to the Court on the day appointed for you to attend.
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I,.........................………........., hereby acknowledge receipt of this summons.
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Signature
Home address:......………………………….….....................Phone..……….......
Postal address: (if different from home address)
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Work address:..................………………………………..........Phone.....………....
Dated: