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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH APRIL, 1887.

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to amend and consolidate the

BE

Law relating to Jurors.

E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The Jury Consolidation Ordinance 188

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2. The Ordinances or parts thereof mentioned in the Schedule hereto are hereby repealed, but such repeal shall not affect anything done or suffered thereunder nor any past operation thereof.

3. In all civil and criminal trials and in all enquiries into the idiotey, lunacy, or unsoundness of mind of any person the jury (if any) shall, except where otherwise specially provided, consist of seven men.

4. Every male person between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years, being of sound mind, and not afflicted with deafness, blindness, or other such infirmity, who shall be a good and sufficient person resident within the Colony, shall be qualified and liable to serve as a juror, subject to the excep- tions hereinafter provided.

5. The persons hereinafter mentioned shall not be or be deemed liable to serve as jurors.

(a.) Members of Council.

(b.) All persons holding any office or situation of

emolument under the Crown.

(e.) Salaried functionaries of Foreign Governments

not carrying on business.

(d.) Barristers-at-Law, Solicitors in actual practice and

their clerks.

(e) Medical Practitioners and Surgeons registered under The Medical Registration Ordinance No. 6 of 1884, and Dentists.

(f) Editors of Daily Newspapers in the Colony and

their staff.

(g.) Chemists and Druggists actually carrying on

business as such.

(4.) Clergymen of the Church of England, Roman Catholic Priests and Ministers of any congrega- tion of Protestant Dissenters or of Jews: Pro- vided they follow no secular occupation except that of Schoolmasters.

(i.) Officers employed on full pay in the Military or

Naval Service of Her Majesty.

(j) Masters of steamers and local pilots.

(k.) Persons ignorant of the English language,

6. If any person shall be summoned as a juror who shall under the terms of the preceding sections, be exempt from service or who shall not be qualified to serve as a juror or who having been summoned as a special juror shall not be qualified to serve as such, such exemption or want of qua- lification shall be a good cause of challenge and the person so summoned shall be discharged upon such challenge or upon his own application, if the Court shall be satisfied of the fact and shall so direct; but no such exemption or want of qualification, if not submitted to the Court before such person is sworn, shall afterwards be accepted as a ground for impeaching any verdict given by the jury on which he has served.

7. Every person shall, for the purpose of enabling the Registrar of the Supreme Court to complete the list of jurors hereinafter referred to, on demand by such Registrar or some person duly authorised by him, forward to such Registrar in writing within the time specified in the said demand, his name and surnames at full length together with his profession, business or occupation and place of abode, under penalty for refusing or neglecting so to do of a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, on conviction before a Magistrate.

Short title.

Repeals.

Number of jurors on trial, &c. (No. 11 of 1864 Soc. 2.)

Qualification

and exemp- tions (No. 11 of 1864. 4.)

Exemptions from serving as jurors.

Exemption or want of quali fication to be

a ground of Challenge but not of avoiding trial.

Names for and mode of obtaining Jury List. (No. 24 of 1882, B. 2.)

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