New South Wales Consolidated Acts

JURY ACT 1977 - SECT 72

72 Payment for jury service

(1) Subject to the regulations, a person is entitled to be paid an amount determined in accordance with the regulations for attendance for jury service at a court or coronial inquest.

(1A) However, a person is not so entitled if the person attends for jury service in accordance with the summons and then successfully applies to be excused from attending further for jury service.

(2) Where civil proceedings are tried with a jury pursuant to a requisition for trial with a jury, the party who filed that requisition shall pay to the sheriff or any prescribed officer of the court on the prescribed day of the trial and on each subsequent day the amount, or if the regulations so provide any prescribed part of the amount, required to pay the fees for the jurors under subsection (1) for that day.

(3) The fees paid under subsection (2) shall be treated as costs in the proceedings, unless the court otherwise orders.