ADMINISTRATIVE APPEALS BOARD (WITNESSES' ALLOWANCES) RULES
- CHAPTER 442A

ADMINISTRATIVE APPEALS BOARD (WITNESSES' ALLOWANCES) RULES - LONG TITLE  
Empowering section VerDate:21/09/2001



(Cap 442, section 30)

[21 September 2001]  L.N. 185 of 2001

(L.N. 133 of 2001)



ADMINISTRATIVE APPEALS BOARD (WITNESSES' ALLOWANCES) RULES - RULE 1
(Omitted as spent) VerDate:21/09/2001



(Omitted as spent)



ADMINISTRATIVE APPEALS BOARD (WITNESSES' ALLOWANCES) RULES - RULE 2
Interpretation VerDate:21/09/2001



In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires-
"witness" (證人) means a witness summoned under the Ordinance but does not 
include a public officer acting in the course of his duties.
"witness" (證人)


ADMINISTRATIVE APPEALS BOARD (WITNESSES' ALLOWANCES) RULES - RULE 3
Application for payment of witnesses' allowances VerDate:21/09/2001




(1)	Subject to subrule (2), where a witness attends the hearing of 
an appeal to give evidence (including professional or expert evidence) or 
to produce documents, the witness may apply-

        (a)	in writing to the Secretary; or

        (b)	orally to the Board during the hearing of the appeal,
for payment of an allowance referred to in rule 4.

(2)	An application under subrule (1) shall be made within 14 days 
beginning with the day on which the witness attends the hearing of an 
appeal, and in the case where he attends the hearing in respect of the 
same appeal for more than one day, the last of those days.



ADMINISTRATIVE APPEALS BOARD (WITNESSES' ALLOWANCES) RULES - RULE 4
Allowances for witnesses VerDate:21/09/2001



The Board may, upon an application under rule 3 or on its own motion, 
allow in respect of a witness a professional witness allowance, expert 
witness allowance or loss allowance, as the case may be, not exceeding the 
professional witness allowance, expert witness allowance or loss allowance 
that a magistrate may allow under the Criminal Procedure (Witnesses' 
Allowances) Rules (Cap 221 sub. leg.) in respect of a witness who attends 
to give evidence in criminal proceedings.



ADMINISTRATIVE APPEALS BOARD (WITNESSES' ALLOWANCES) RULES - RULE 5
Allowance to be claimed within 3 months VerDate:21/09/2001



Any sum allowed under these Rules shall cease to be payable unless claimed 
within 3 months from the date on which it was allowed.



ADMINISTRATIVE APPEALS BOARD (WITNESSES' ALLOWANCES) RULES - RULE 6
Transitional VerDate:21/09/2001



Where the Board had, before the commencement of these Rules, agreed to pay 
an allowance to a witness under section 21(1)(l) of the Ordinance, the 
Board shall upon the commencement of these Rules allow in respect of that 
witness a professional witness allowance, expert witness allowance or loss 
allowance, as the case may be, not exceeding the professional witness 
allowance, expert witness allowance or loss allowance that a magistrate 
may allow under the Criminal Procedure (Witnesses' Allowances) Rules (Cap 
221 sub. leg.) in respect of a witness who attends to give evidence in 
criminal proceedings.