CO129-504-15 Various ordinances 4-4-1927 - 29-11-1927 — Page 64

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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