Coroners (Remuneration of Assessors) Regulations 2010

Coroners Act 2010

(Sections 32(3) and 49)

Coroners
(Remuneration of Assessors)
Regulations 2010

2025 REVISED EDITION

(2 June 2025)

[2 January 2011]

Citation

1.  These Regulations are the Coroners (Remuneration of Assessors) Regulations 2010.

Definitions

2.  In these Regulations —

“assessor” means an assessor appointed under section 32 of the Act to assist a Coroner in the hearing of any inquiry;

“attendance in court”, in relation to an assessor, means the attendance of the assessor with a Coroner in the hearing of an inquiry or at any pre‑inquiry review;

“authorising officer” means the State Coroner or the Coroner hearing the inquiry for which the assessor was appointed.

Remuneration of assessors

3.—(1)  An assessor is to be remunerated at the rate of $100 per hour or part of an hour, for his or her attendance in court and for work done to assist the Coroner in connection with an inquiry, subject to a maximum of $700 per day.

(2)  An assessor is to be paid, in addition to paragraph (1), a transport allowance under regulation 4.

Transport allowance

4.  An assessor may be allowed for each day’s attendance in court a fixed sum, not exceeding $20, as the authorising officer thinks fit, as transport allowance for travel between the place where his or her attendance is required and his or her place of stay in Singapore, regardless of the mode of transport actually used or the actual expense or charge incurred for the transport.

Time for submission of claims

5.  An assessor must submit his or her claim in respect of his or her remuneration (including the transport allowance) to the authorising officer in any form that the authorising officer may require no later than 2 months after accrual of the claim.

Discretion of authorising officer to disallow claims

6.  The authorising officer may disallow any claim or part of any claim which, in his or her view, is unreasonable or which has been unnecessarily incurred.

Certification of remuneration

7.  Where the authorising officer approves the remuneration to be paid to an assessor under these Regulations, the authorising officer must issue a certificate certifying the sum to be paid to the assessor.