(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.