A.D. 1887.]
JURY.
[No. 6.
553
by him to be liable to serve as jurors, setting forth the name and surname and name of each at full length, together with his profession, business, or occupation and place of abode, and shall cause a copy of such list to be posted for the term of one fortnight at the chief entrance to the Court.
(2.) Any person may apply by notice in writing to the Registrar requiring that his name or the name of some other person may be respectively either added to or struck off from the list, upon cause duly assigned in such notice; and the Registrar, immediately after the expiration of the time for posting the list, shall forward the same and such notices as may be so served on him to the Clerk of the Legislative Council.
(3.) The Council may strike off from or add to the list such name or names or any other name or names as to the Council may appear fit, and shall mark off not less than twenty-four of the names contained in the list, and such names shall be formed into a separate list which shall be designated The Special Jurors List, and all other names contained in the list shall be marked off in a separate list and be designated The Common Jurors List.
8. The lists, when finally settled, shall be returned to the Registrar by the Clerk of Council and called The Jurors List, and shall be brought into use on the first day of March next following and shall continue in force for one year from the said first day of March.
9. When the list is completed and returned to the Registrar, he shall cause the names of the common and special jurors to be written on separate cards of equal size and placed in separate boxes to be called The Common Jurors Ballot Box and The Special Jurors Ballot Box; and such boxes shall be kept locked.
Formation of Panels of Jurors.
Placing of ballot boxes,
names in
Formation of
common jurors.
10.--(1.) Whenever it is necessary to summon a common jury, a Deputy Registrar shall, in the presence of the Registrar, open and draw from the appropriate ballot box eighteen names in civil cases and thirty names in criminal cases to form a panel, and whenever from any cause the jurors drawn cannot be served, it shall be lawful for a Deputy Registrar to re-open the ballot box and in manner aforesaid draw fresh names therefrom as often as may be necessary to secure the full number of jurors required to be drawn.
(2.) The cards with the names of those who do not actually serve and are not dead or permanently incapacitated shall be returned to the ballot box, and the cards with the names of those who actually serve shall be locked up in a separate box until all the names in the ballot box are exhausted by subsequent panels, when they shall be returned to the ballot box, if required, for the purposes of the current year.
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