ORDINANCE No. 18 OF 1887.
Jury Consolidation.
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Number of jurors on
3. In all civil and criminal trials and in all enquiries into the idiotcy, lunacy, or unsoundness of mind of any person the jury (if any) shall, trial, &c. except where otherwise specially provided, consist of seven men.
[No. 11 of 1864, sec. 2.]
and exemptions [No. 11 of 1864, s. 4.]
4. Every male person between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years, being of sound mind, and not afflicted with deafness, blindness, or other such infirmity, who shall be a good and sufficient person resident within the Colony, shall be qualified and liable to serve as a juror, subject to the exceptions hereinafter provided.
5. The persons hereinafter mentioned shall not be or be deemed liable to serve as jurors.
(a.) Members of Council.
(b.) All persons holding any office or situation of emolument under the Crown.
(c.) Salaried functionaries of Foreign Governments not carrying on business.
(d.) Barristers-at-law, solicitors in actual practice and their clerks.
(e.) Medical practitioners and surgeons registered under The Medical Registration Ordinance No. 6 of 1884, and dentists.
(f.) Editors of daily newspapers in the Colony and their staff.
(g.) Chemists and druggists actually carrying on business as such.
(h.) Clergymen of the Church of England, Roman Catholic priests and ministers of any congregation of protestant dissenters or of jews, and schoolmasters.
(i) Officers employed on full pay in the Military or Naval Service of Her Majesty.
(j.) Masters of steamers and local pilots.
(k.) Persons ignorant of the English language.
Exemptions from serving as jurors.
Exemption or want of qualification to be a ground of
but not of avoiding trial.
6. If any person shall be summoned as a juror who shall under the terms of the preceding sections, be exempt from service or who shall not be qualified to serve as a juror or who having been summoned as a special challenge juror shall not be qualified to serve as such, such exemption or want of qualification shall be a good cause of challenge and the person so summoned...