Explanatory note

These Regulations revoke and replace the Jurors' Allowances Regulations 1977 applying to service as a juror in the Crown Court, the High Court or a county court.

The principal change effected by these Regulations is that they do not prescribe maximum rates of allowances but instead provide that the maximum amounts payable in respect of the allowances are to be calculated in accordance with such rates or scales as may for the time being be determined by the Lord Chancellor with the consent of the Minister for the Civil Service in accordance with section 19 of the Juries Act 1974 as amended by paragraph 7 of Schedule 2 to the Administration of Justice Act 1977.