Provisional
Hat of special jurors,
Settlement of lists of juton
BA. On or before the 1st day of October, 1960, and on or before the 1st day of October in each alternate year thereafter, the Registrar shall compite a provisional list of special jurors which shall consist of the names of not more than three hundred and fifty persons being qualified und liable to serve as jurors, or such greater number as the Governor in Council may from time to time determine.
8B. (1) On or before the 1st day of October, 1960, and on or before the 1st day of October in each alternate year thereafter, there shall be published in the Gazette and in one English language daily newspaper and in one Chinese language daily newspaper, each circulating in the Colony-
(a) a notice by the Commissioner stating that the provisional list of common jurors is available for inspection free of charge at the address specified in such notice upon such days and between such hours as shall therein be specified up to and including the next following 14th day of October; and
(6) a notice by the Registrar stating that the provi.
sional list of special jurors is available for inspection free of charge at the address specified in such notice upon such days and between such bours as shall be specified therein up to and including the next following 14th day of October. (2) At any time between such 1st day of October and such 14th day of October, any person may apply by notice in writing addressed to the Registrar requiring that his name, or the name of any other person, be added to or deleted from either the list of common jurors or the list of special jurors, as the case may be, for cause duly assigned in such notice.
(3) On receipt of any application in accordance with subsection (2) relating to any person whose name appears on the list of common jurors the Registrar shall in his discretion allow or disallow the application and finally settle such list accordingly.
(4) As soon as may be after such 14th day of October and in any case not later than the 1st day of November next following, the Registrar shall forward to the Clerk of Councils the provisional list of special jurors together with any application relating thereto and received in accordance with subsection (2) and thereafter the Governor in Council
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shall consider such list and in his discretion allow or disallow any such application and finally settle such list accordingly.
(5) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, the Governor in Council in relation to the list of special jurors and the Registrar in relation to the list of common jurors may adopt as and for the list of special jurors or the list of common jurors, as the case may be. of the current year, the appropriate list of a previous year.”.
Section 9 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced by the following section—
"Publication
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B brtoging into opera- tion of lists of jurors.
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9. (1) Not later than the 1st day of February, 1961. and thereafter not later than the 1st day of February in each alternate year-
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(a) the Commissioner shall cause the list of common jurors as finally settled by the Registrar to be printed and thereafter shall publish a notice in the Gazette stating that such list has been printed and that copies thereof may be inspected at his office and at the office of the Registrar upon such days and during such hours as shall be stipulated in such notice, and also that copies of such list may be purchased at such place and at such price as shall be stipulated in the notice; and
(b) the Registrar shall cause a notice to be published in the Gazerte stating that the list of special jurors as finally settled by the Governor in Council may be inspected at his office upon such days and during such hours as shall be stipulated in such notice, and that copies of such list may be purchased at such place and at such price as shall be stipulated in the notice.
(2) The list of special jurors and the list of common jurors shall be in force from fifteen days after the date on which the notice referred to in subsection (1) is published in the Gazette until fifteen days after the date on which such notice relating to the next succeeding list is so published.".
Repeal and replacement of section 9.
Section 10 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced Repeal and replacement by the following section-
| "Power to
add to settled Jury lists.
10. (1) If any person becomes liable for inclusion in the list of special jurors or in the list of commen jurors after the final settlement of such lists in accordance with
of section 10.
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