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Criminal Procedure Act, 1977 (Act No. 51 of 1977)

Regulations

Regulations Prescribing the Tariff of Allowances Payable to Psychiatrists and Clinical Psychologists who Appear as Witnesses in Court

5. to 9. Supplementary provisions

 

5.

(1) A psychiatrist or clinical psychologist who must attend a criminal case as a witness for the State and who cannot do so without prior financial assistance by the State, may make a request for such assistance at any magistrates office or High Court.

 

(2) The court manager or the registrar of the High Court contemplated in subregulation (1) must make the necessary arrangements in respect of a psychiatrist or clinical psychologist contemplated in subregulation (1), including the authorisation for the payment of an advance to the person .

 

(3) The financial assistance rendered in terms of subregulation (1) must be taken into account before payment of an allowance in terms of regulations 2 to 4 is made.

 

6. A psychiatrist or clinical psychologist who attends more than one criminal case as a witness at the same court on the same day is for the purposes of these regulations deemed to have attended one criminal case only.

 

7. Where the expenses incurred by a psychiatrist or clinical psychologist in connection with his or her attendance at a criminal case are provided for from any other source, no allowance in terms of these regulations is to be paid to him or her.

 

8. The decision of the court manager or the registrar of a High Court in respect of the amounts payable in terms of regulations 2, 3 and 4 shall be final.

 

9. Government Notice No. R. 214 of 28 February 2002, is repealed.