Interpretation

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, “compensation” includes an award of money, (a) indemnifying a witness against loss of earnings in any profession, trade or calling during the time he is attending Court; (b) remunerating a witness for loss of time and the trouble of attending the Court for the purpose of giving evidence; and (c) reimbursing a witness any expenses which in the opinion of the Court, or a judge thereof, have been properly and necessarily incurred in connection with the attendance of the witness in Court, all such compensation being restricted to the period during which the witness was necessarily absent from the place of his residence for the purpose of attending the Court; “Court” means the Supreme Court established under the Supreme Court of Judicature Act, Cap. 91; 5 “magistrate” includes a coroner and a justice of the peace when sitting as a coroner; “travelling expenses” includes all sums of money or expenses reasonably and necessarily paid or incurred for travelling, (a) to and from the Court; (b) to and from any place to which the witness may have necessarily gone for the purpose of travelling to the town or place named in the recognisance or subpoena as the place of trial; or (c) between the Court and the place of his temporary abode during adjournments of the the journeys in all cases being in excess of one mile.