5   Payment for jury service

(1)  For the purposes of section 72 of the Act, if a person is entitled to be paid for attendance for jury service at a court or coronial inquest, the amount to be paid is to be calculated in accordance with this clause.

(2)  The amount is to be calculated as the sum of the following:

(a)  an attendance allowance calculated in accordance with the Table in Part 1 of Schedule 1,

(b)  the travelling allowance calculated in accordance with Part 2 of Schedule 1,

(c)  the refreshment allowance calculated in accordance with Part 3 of Schedule 1.

(3)  A person who is employed at the time the person is in attendance for jury service is entitled to an attendance allowance only if:

(a)  the person’s full wage, salary or income is reduced during that time as a result of the jury service and then only to the extent of the reduction, or

(b)  the person is not paid any of the wage, salary or income that the person would normally be entitled to during that time, or

(c)  the person is required to reimburse his or her employer the amount of the jury allowance.

(4)  The sheriff may require a person who claims or intends to claim a jury allowance to supply such information as the sheriff considers necessary to determine the amount of jury allowance, if any, to which the person is entitled.

(5)  In this clause and Schedule 1, a reference to a person who is employed includes a reference to:

(a)  a person who is a full-time, part-time or casual employee, and

(b)  a person who is an independent contractor or a self-employed person.