Section Sch2-6 — Employment Relations Act 2000: Witnesses' expenses

6 Witnesses' expenses (1) Every person attending the Authority on a summons, and every other person giving evidence before the Authority, is entitled, subject to subclause (2) , to be paid, by the party calling that person, witnesses' fees, allowances, and travelling expenses according to the scales for the time being prescribed by regulations made under the Summary Proceedings Act 1957 , and those regulations apply accordingly. (2) The Authority may disallow the whole or any part of any sum payable under subclause (1) . (3) On each occasion on which the Authority issues a summons under clause 5 , the Authority, or the person exercising the power of the Authority under subclause (3) of that clause, must fix an amount that, on the service of the summons, or at some other reasonable time before the date on which the witness is required to attend, is to be paid or tendered to the witness. (4) The amount fixed under subclause (3) of this clause is to be the estimated amount of the allowances and travelling expenses (but not fees) to which, in the opinion of the Authority or person, the witness will be entitled, according to the prescribed scales, if the witness attends at the time and place specified in the summons. (5) Where the Authority, on its own volition, issues a summons to any person under clause 5(1) ,— (a) that person, if he or she attends the Authority on that summons, is entitled, subject to subclause (2) , to be paid by the Department the amount of the witnesses' fees, allowances, and travelling expenses specified in subclause (1) ; and (b) the Department must provide any amount fixed under subclause (3) as the amount required to be paid or tendered to that person. Compare: 1991 No 22 s 96