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JURY (AMENDMENT) BILL 1988
compilation and publication of these lists. Previously the responsibility was split between the Registrar and the Commissioner of Registration. Comes of the settled lists are no longer to be offered for sale.
5.
Clause 7 repeals and replaces section 11 of the principal Ordin- ance, which relates to additions to settled jury lists. The section is now limited to additions to the list of common jurors and no longer includes a requirement that additional names be published in the Gazette. Instead, a notice must be published in the Gazette stating where copies of the lists of additional names may be inspected.
6. Clause 8 amends section 12 of the principal Ordinance by repeal- ing the requirement that the names of persons removed from the jury lists be published in the Gazette.
7. Clauses 9 and 10 amend sections 21 and 23 of the principal Ordinance by providing that each card used in the ballot for the jury shall bear a number corresponding to a name, rather than a name itself.
8. Clause I amends section 28 of the principal Ordinance by stating how a person may apply to the court for exemption from jury service or for the removal of his name from a list of jurors.
9. Clause 12 amends section 38 of the principal Ordinance, which provides that rules may be made under the Ordinance. The amendment deletes the provision dealing with the laying of those rules before the Legislative Council since more detailed requirements are now contained in the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance.
10. References in the principal Ordinance to "the Colony" are removed by clauses 13 and 14. Clause 14 also contains a consequential amendment to a prescribed form.
11. The Bill has no Public Service staffing implications but the amendments relating to the sale and publication of jury lists are estimated to cause annual savings of $100,000, excluding savings in labour costs.
1988年陪審團(修訂)條例草案
摘要說明
本條例草案的主要目的如下:
(a) 豁免所有市政局及區域市政局議員、感化主任及部份社會工作者擔任陪審
員;以及
(6) 廢止既定陪審員名單如有增補,則增補名單須在憲報公布的規定。
2. 草案第2條擴大「處長」一詞的定義,使之除人事登記處處長以外,兼指人 事登記處副處長及人事登記處助理處長。
3.
草案第3條修訂原有條例第5條,豁免下列人士擔任陪審員:
(a) 所有市政局及區域市政局議員(市政局普通議員以往已獲豁免);