New South Wales Consolidated Acts

SPECIAL COMMISSIONS OF INQUIRY ACT 1983 - SECT 20

20 Allowances to witnesses

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

(2) If the regulations do not prescribe such a scale of allowance, allowances shall be payable as if the witness were a witness in proceedings in the Supreme Court.

(3) The claim to allowance of any witness referred to in this section shall be paid by the Treasurer out of money to be provided by Parliament for the purposes of the Special Commission concerned.