Witnesses and Interpreters Fees Amendment Regulations 2013: revoked, on 1 May 2023, pursuant to regulation 15 of the Witnesses and Interpreters Fees, Allowances, and Expenses Regulations 2023 (SL 2023/18).

Jerry Mateparae, Governor-General

Order in Council

At Wellington this 17th day of June 2013

Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council

Note

The Parliamentary Counsel Office has made editorial and format changes to this version using the powers under subpart 2 of Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

Note 4 at the end of this version provides a list of the amendments included in it.

These regulations are administered by the Ministry of Justice.

Pursuant to section 387 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011, section 100A of the Judicature Act 1908, and section 81 of the Public Finance Act 1989 (so far as these regulations relate to witnesses and interpreters paid by the Crown under regulation 4 of the Witnesses and Interpreters Fees Regulations 1974), His Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council, makes the following regulations.

1	Title
2	Commencement
3	Principal regulations
4	Regulation 2 amended (Interpretation)
5	Regulation 3 amended (Application of regulations)
6	Regulation 4 amended (Fees, allowances, and expenses payable by the Crown)
	Explanatory note
	Gazette Information
	Notes

Regulations

1 Title

These regulations are the Witnesses and Interpreters Fees Amendment Regulations 2013.

2 Commencement

These regulations come into force on 1 July 2013.

3 Principal regulations

These regulations amend the Witnesses and Interpreters Fees Regulations 1974 (the principal regulations).

4 Regulation 2 amended (Interpretation)

In regulation 2, replace the definition of paying officer with:

paying officer means—

(a)

a Registrar or a Deputy Registrar in respect of witnesses or interpreters paid by him or her; or

(b)

the person who authorises payment, in any other case.

5 Regulation 3 amended (Application of regulations)

In regulation 3(a), replace “in a District Court in its criminal jurisdiction” with “to which the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 applies”.

6 Regulation 4 amended (Fees, allowances, and expenses payable by the Crown)

In regulation 4(2), delete “, except where notice has been given on behalf of the Crown to the private prosecutor that the prosecution is not to be conducted by the Crown Solicitor”.

Rebecca Kitteridge,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Explanatory note

This note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general effect.

These regulations amend the Witnesses and Interpreters Fees Regulations 1974 (the principal regulations) to align the principal regulations with the Criminal Procedure Act 2011. The regulations come into force on 1 July 2013, which is the day on which the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 will be fully in force.

Regulation 4 amends the definition of paying officer in regulation 2 of the principal regulations. The amended definition clarifies that Deputy Registrars are included in the definition of paying officers.

Regulation 5 amends regulation 3 of the principal regulations, which is the application provision. The principal regulations currently apply to the payment of witnesses and interpreters for the Crown in criminal and civil proceedings and to any proceedings in a District Court in its criminal jurisdiction. Because the existing restriction to District Courts is no longer appropriate in light of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011, the amendment extends the application of the principal regulations to any proceedings to which that Act applies.

Regulation 6 amends regulation 4 of the principal regulations, which makes provision for fees, allowances, and expenses payable by the Crown to witnesses and interpreters in judicial proceedings, by removing an exception that is no longer applicable.

Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2019.

Date of notification in Gazette: 20 June 2013.

Notes

1 General

This is a consolidation of the Witnesses and Interpreters Fees Amendment Regulations 2013 that incorporates the amendments made to the legislation so that it shows the law as at its stated date.

2 Legal status

A consolidation is taken to correctly state, as at its stated date, the law enacted or made by the legislation consolidated and by the amendments. This presumption applies unless the contrary is shown.

Section 78 of the Legislation Act 2019 provides that this consolidation, published as an electronic version, is an official version. A printed version of legislation that is produced directly from this official electronic version is also an official version.

3 Editorial and format changes

The Parliamentary Counsel Office makes editorial and format changes to consolidations using the powers under subpart 2 of Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. See also PCO editorial conventions for consolidations.

4 Amendments incorporated in this consolidation

Witnesses and Interpreters Fees, Allowances, and Expenses Regulations 2023 (SL 2023/18): regulation 15

Witnesses and Interpreters Fees Amendment Regulations 2013