s.12Payment of jurors
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Section 12Part 0 —

Payment of jurors

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Upon receiving a summons to report for jury duty, an employee shall on the next day the employee is engaged in the employee’s employment show the summons to the employee’s immediate supervisor and the employee shall thereupon be excused from the employee’s employment for the day or days required of the employee in serving as a juror.
Each juror shall be entitled to an allowance of fifty dollars per day for the juror’s attendance at court together with a travelling allowance not exceeding one dollar for each mile travelled in order to attend and the Clerk of the Court shall issue to each juror a warrant, countersigned by the court, authorising the Treasury to pay to each juror the amount so due to that juror.
Notwithstanding the excused absence provided for in subsection (1), a juror who is an employee shall be entitled to the juror’s usual compensation received from the juror’s employment; and an employer who refuses to pay an employee in accordance with this subsection or who terminates the employment of an employee on the grounds that the employee is serving on a jury commits an offence and is liable to be dealt with in accordance with section 27 of the Grand Court Act (2015 Revision).
Where a juror has been serving for a period exceeding two months and the juror’s employer suffers financial loss because of such juror’s absence from the employer’s employment, the employer may apply to the Courts Administrator for an allowance to compensate the employer for such loss or a part of such loss; and the Courts Administrator, after obtaining such information from the employer as the Courts Administrator considers necessary, shall issue to the employer a warrant, countersigned by the Clerk of the Court, authorising the Treasury to pay to such employer the amount so due to the employer.
When an employee receives the allowance of fifty dollars referred to in subsection (2), the Clerk of the Court shall notify the juror’s employer of such payment and the employee shall pay that allowance to the juror’s employer or, where the employee’s daily employment compensation is less than fifty dollars, such part of such allowance as is equal to such daily employment compensation; and an employee who refuses or fails to pay the employee’s employer such allowance commits an offence.

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