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The obli-
course which section 5 of this Ordinance adopts.
gation will be on each qualified person to apply to have his
name entered in the register. This part of the register
will be closed to fresh applications for registration for
fourteen clear days before any ballot, so as to allow some
time for the investigation of all claims to registration.
5.
The enumeration of persons exempt from jury service
who are entitled to registration in the second part of the
register is contained in the new sub-section (4) of section
8 of the principal Ordinance which appears as part of section
5 of this Ordinace. The emuneration follows that contained
in section 4 of the Jurors Ordinance, 1887, as it was thought
better to avoid raising any wide discussion of the basis of
qualification in the absence of any public demand for a change,
but a few changes have been made.
6. In the first place the second part of the register
is expressly restricted to male persons.
7. The wording of the paragraph relating to barristers
and solicitors has been slightly altered because it is not the
custom for barristers to have clerks in this Colony.
8.
The paragraph in the Jury Ordinance, 1887, relating
to "chemists and druggists actually carrying on business as
such" has been incorporated with the paragraph relating to
doctors and dentists, and the form which the description now
takes is that of persons registered under the Pharmacy and
Poisons Ordinance, 1916, Ordinance No.9 of 1916. The paragraph
relating to doctors has been altered. In the Jury Ordinance
it reads, "persons entitled to practise medicine and surgery
under the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884." The intention
seems to be to refer to persons registered as practitioners