Expenses of jurors in criminal cases

(1) No juror whose name appears on the panel of jurors prepared under section 15, shall be entitled to have or receive any remuneration for his service, but in every case where a juror has travelled more than three miles to attend the court he shall be entitled to be reimbursed the amount, if any, actually and reasonably incurred and paid in travelling to and from the Juries 23 court, and in board and lodging while attending the court, not exceeding thirty cents a mile one way for travelling expenses, and four dollars a day for subsistence allowance, but the court may for any cause it thinks fit, disallow the expenses and subsistence which any juror is entitled to receive. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in this section the court may, if it appears to its satisfaction upon oath that in any particular case the allowance to any juror is insufficient to cover the actual expenses of his attendance at the court, or that, although he may not have travelled more than three miles, he has been obliged to incur expense in attending the court, make such special order for further or other allowance to be paid as the court may think fit. (3) Where the Chief Justice under section 42 of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act, Cap. 91 has directed that the business before the court at any sitting of the court in the Central District in the exercise of its criminal jurisdiction shall be disposed of before two courts, the Registrar shall, before that sitting of the court and subject to the directions of a judge, divide the panel of jurors struck by him for such sitting as nearly as may be into two equal parts and shall make a separate list for each of the two courts. (4) In making such division the Registrar shall in the presence of a judge, draw from a box containing the names of all the jurors appearing on the panel, one by one, half the names in the box as nearly as may be and such half so drawn shall constitute the panel for the First Court, and the names remaining in the box shall constitute the panel for the Second Provided that, without prejudice to section 27 of this Act, at any time when the First Court and the Second Court are both sitting one or more jurors on the panel in either court may, by order of the judge of such court, be transferred to serve in the other court and his or their names shall be placed on the panel of jurors to serve in such other court. 24 Juries