1988 Ed.]
Jury
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(a) on an application made by or on behalf of the parties (including in criminal cases the prosecution and the accused) or any of them, or at his own instance, to make an order that the jury shall be composed of men only or of women only, as the case may require;
(b) on an application made by a woman to be exempted from service on a jury in respect of any case by reason of the nature of the evidence to be given or the issues to be tried, to grant such exemption.
(Added, 37 of 1947, s. 8)
Ballot for jury
21. The Registrar shall cause numbers corresponding to the names of all the jurors summoned to form a panel to be printed on separate cards of equal size and put in a box, and he or the clerk of the court shall, in open court, draw therefrom until a jury is obtained.
Keeping jury together
(Replaced, 64 of 1984, s. 10. Amended, 37 of 1988, s. 9)
22. (1) After the jury have been sworn or charged with the person accused, they shall be kept in some convenient place in court apart by themselves (retirement of individual jurors for personal purposes only excepted, and then in charge of an officer of the court), until the judge has summed up the evidence and has left the case with the jury:
Provided that if the court adjourns during the hearing of the case (either during the sitting or at the end of a day's sitting) the judge may either allow the jury to disperse, or may direct that they be removed in charge of an officer of the court to some convenient place, there to take refreshment at their own expense and rest, until the court reassembles, and such officer shall be sworn that he will suffer none save himself to speak to or to communicate with them without the leave of the judge. (Amended, 50 of 1911; 51 of 1911; 62 of 1911, Schedule; and 63 of 1911, Schedule)
(2) If, after the case has been left with the jury, the jury desire to withdraw for the purpose of considering their verdict, then they shall be kept by an officer of the court in some convenient place apart by themselves, but they shall be allowed reasonable refreshment at their own expense, with power also to retire alone only for personal purposes, until they are agreed upon their verdict or are discharged therefrom by the court; and the officer shall be sworn that he will suffer none to have access to them nor speak to them himself, except to ask whether they are agreed upon their verdict or to communicate between them and the court. (Amended, 50 of 1911 and 62 of 1911, Schedule)
Empanelling new jury for new case
23. The names of the persons drawn as jurors shall be marked on the list provided for in section 18, and the cards with the numbers corresponding to such names shall be kept apart by themselves until all the cards in the box have been drawn: