(1)All payments under section 1 of the [1949 c. 27.] Juries Act 1949 (payments in respect of jury service) shall be made out of money provided by Parliament.
(2)In section 1(4) of the said Act (regulations of the Secretary of State prescribing scales of payment, and conditions of payment) for both references to the Secretary of State there shall be substituted references to the Lord Chancellor.
(3)The determination of the amounts payable to persons under the said section 1, and the manner of making those payments, shall be in accordance with arrangements made by the Lord Chancellor.
(4)Subsection (1) and subsection (3) above and the said section 1(4) of the Act of 1949 shall not apply to payments in respect of service at a coroner's court, and—
(a)in the said section 1 as it applies to such service " prescribed", shall mean prescribed by regulations made by statutory instrument by the Secretary of State with the consent of the Treasury, and
(b)the amount due to any person in respect of such service shall be ascertained and paid over to him by the coroner.
(5)Nothing in this section shall affect the validity of any regulations made before the appointed day.