STATUTORY RULES.

1915. No. 22.

REGULATION UNDER THE LAND TAX ASSESSMENT ACT 1910-1914.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby certify that the following Regulation should, on account of urgency, come into immediate operation, and make the Regulation to come into operation forthwith as a Provisional Regulation.

Dated this 18th day of February, One thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

E. J. RUSSELL,

for Treasurer.

The Land Tax Regulations 1912 (Statutory Rules 1912, No. 141) are amended as follow:—

By inserting, therein after Regulation 45 the following Regulation:—

Witnesses’ Expenses.

45a.—The scale of expenses to be allowed to persons required to attend and give evidence under section 65 of the Act shall be as follows:—

—	If resident at place of hearing or within four miles.			If resident beyond four miles from place of hearing.
	Per diem.			Per diem.
	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.
Labourers and other ordinary witnesses.....................	0	7	6	0	10	0
Mechanics, clerks, master tradesmen, yeomen, and farmers........	0	10	0	0	15	0
Engineers, surveyors, accountants, auctioneers, bankers, bank managers, merchants, professional men, and esquires	1	0	0	1	10	0
Police and constabulary...............................	Amount of pay lost, and if stationed out of the town, 2s. 6d. extra

Travelling expenses, if witness resides more than four miles from the place of hearing, the sum reasonably and actually paid.

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