JURY.
No. 6 of 1887.
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(2) The two lists so settled and brought into use in any year shall continue in force until the respective lists settled in the next following year are duly brought into use.
9. The Registrar 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, which shall be kept locked.
Names to be placed in ballot boxes.
10.-(1) Whenever it is necessary to summon a common panel of jury, the Registrar or a Deputy Registrar shall open and draw from the 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, the Registrar or a Deputy Registrar shall 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.
(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.
11. Whenever it is necessary to summon a special jury, such jury shall be drawn in the manner hereinbefore provided for obtaining a common jury, but the number to be drawn shall in all cases be seventeen.
12. The party applying for a special jury, and who has obtained an order of the court or of a judge for that purpose, shall, when the cause is set down in the general hearing list, deposit with the Registrar a sum sufficient to cover the expenses of the special jury; otherwise the order shall be of no effect.
13. (1) In forming any panel, the Registrar shall pass over the names of all persons drawn who are dead or absent from the Colony, but shall return to the ballot box the names of any temporary absentees.
* As amended by No. 8 of 1929 [28.6.29].
+ As amended by No. 23 of 1934 [24.8.34].
Passing over names for panel.
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