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Fees and expenses to witnesses.
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13.—(1) The fees payable to a legally qualified medical practitioner who has made any post-mortem examination by the direction or at the request of a coroner, or who has attended an inquest in obedience to a summons of a coroner under the Coroners (Ireland) Act, 1846 or this Act, shall (save as in this Act otherwise expressly provided) be as follows, that is to say:—
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(a) for attending to give evidence at any inquest whereat no post-mortem examination has been made by the practitioner, not exceeding two guineas;
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(b) for making a post-mortem examination of the body of the deceased and reporting the result thereof to the coroner without attending to give evidence at an inquest, not exceeding three guineas; and
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(c) for making a post-mortem examination of the body of the deceased (including the making of a report, if any, of the result thereof to the coroner) and for attending to give evidence at an inquest on the body, not exceeding four guineas:
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Provided that no fee or remuneration shall be paid to a medical practitioner for the purpose of a post-mortem examination instituted without the previous direction or request of the coroner.
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(2) In the case of any other witness attending to give evidence at an inquest, if the coroner shall certify that special circumstances exist he shall allow such sum for expenses as he shall consider reasonable, not exceeding in any one case the sum of five pounds.
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