{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/juries-act-1949/section-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/juries-act-1949/section-25.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/27",
  "legislation_title": "Juries Act 1949",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/juries-act-1949",
  "path": "section/25",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Person by whom the amount of a payment is to be ascertained and paid.",
  "text": "(1) The amount due to a person by way of a payment in respect of jury service shall be ascertained and paid—\n(a) in the case of service at a sitting of the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh or in the Court of Session, by the Secretary of State or such other officer as may be prescribed;\n(b) in the case of service at a sitting of the High Court of Justiciary other than at Edinburgh, or of the sheriff court, whether for a civil or a criminal trial, by the sheriff clerk of the sheriffdom in which such sitting is held;\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(d) in the case of service on a jury summoned under the Lands Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1845, by the sheriff clerk of the court to which the petition to summon the jury is presented.\n(2) The sums required for the making of payments in pursuance to paragraphs (a) and (b) of the last foregoing subsection shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by s.1. 1974/1274, Art. 3(4), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1987 (c. 41, SIF 39:1), ss. 47(4)(a), 70(1), Sch. 1 para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1971 (c. 58), Sch. 1 para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 25(1)(c) repealed by Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1980 (c. 55, SIF 72:2), s. 28(2), Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words substituted by Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1980 (c. 55, SIF 72:2), s. 28(2), Sch. 2 para. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1845 c. 19."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/27/section/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:21:09.430924+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
    "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
  }
}