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Code Of Criminal Procedure Act (No. 15 of 1979) - Sect 243

Power to make regulations

243.
(1) The Minister may with the concurrence of the Minister in charge of the subject of Finance make regulations providing -
(a) for the payment out of the Consolidated Fund of the expenses of persons attending to give evidence for the prosecution or defence or called to give evidence at the instance of the court for the expense, trouble, or loss of time properly incurred in, or incidental to, the attendance and giving of evidence in any trial before the High Court or on the inquiry preliminary to any such trial and the conditions on which such payments may be allowed ;
(b) for the payment out of the Consolidated Fund of the expenses of persons summoned to serve as jurors In any trial-before the High Court ;
(c) for the persons by whom, and the manner in which, the amounts of such expenses shall be ascertained and payments made.
(2) Until regulations are made under subsection (1) the regulations relating to the matters set out in that subsection and in force on the appointed date shall continue to be applicable and in force.


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