Juries Amendment Regulations 2014


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Juries Amendment Regulations 2014

I, the Lieutenant-Governor in and over the State of Tasmania and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, make the following regulations under the Juries Act 2003 .

22 September 2014

A. M. BLOW

Lieutenant-Governor

By His Excellency's Command,

DR. VANESSA GOODWIN

Minister for Justice

1.   Short title

These regulations may be cited as the Juries Amendment Regulations 2014 .

2.   Commencement

These regulations take effect on the day on which their making is notified in the Gazette.

3.   Principal Regulations

In these regulations, the Juries Regulations 2005 are referred to as the Principal Regulations.

4.    Regulation 5 amended (Prescribed remuneration for employed or self-employed jurors)

Regulation 5(7)(b) of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting the definition of A and substituting the following definition:
A is the average weekly earnings that, as at 1 January of the financial year that immediately precedes the financial year in which the specified remuneration is to apply, were the most recently published average weekly earnings;

Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.

Notified in the Gazette on 1 October 2014

These regulations are administered in the Department of Justice.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the regulation)

These regulations amend the Juries Regulations 2005 by making a minor amendment to clarify which figures published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics are to be used to calculate certain allowances.