Queensland Consolidated Acts

COMMISSIONS OF INQUIRY ACT 1950 - SECT 24

24 Allowances to witnesses

(1) Any witness appearing before a commission shall be paid a reasonable sum for the expenses of the witness’s attendance in accordance with the scale prescribed under a regulation.

(2) In the absence of a prescribed scale, the chairperson of the commission may authorise the payment of such sum as the chairperson deems reasonable.

(3) The claim to allowance of any witness appearing before a commission, certified by the chairperson of the commission, shall be paid by the Treasurer out of moneys to be appropriated by Parliament for the purpose.

(4) A regulation may prescribe a scale of allowances to be paid to any witness summoned under this Act for the witness’s travelling expenses and maintenance while absent from the witness’s usual place of abode.