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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 4TH JUNE, 1887.

Qualification

and exemp- tions (No. 11 of 1864 s. 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 aud mode of obtaining Jury List. (No. 24 of 1882, 8. 2.)

Formation of Lists of

Common and Special Jurors. (No. 24 of 1882 s. s. 4 & 17.)

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.

(c.) 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.

(9.) Chemists and Druggists actually carrying on

business as such.

(h.) Clergymen of the Church of England, Roman Catholic Priests and Ministers of any congrega- tion of Protestant Dissenters or of Jews, and Schoolmasters.

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

Naval Service of Her Majesty.

(.) 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.

8. The Registrar shall, on or before the first day of February in each year, make a list in alphabetical order of all persons ascertained by him to be liable to serve as jurors, setting forth the name and surnames of each at full length, together with his profession, business, or occupation and place of abode, and shall cause a copy of such list to be posted for the term of one fortnight at the chief entrance to the Court. And any person may apply by notice in writing to the Registrar requiring that his name or the name of some other person may be respectively either added to or struck off from the said list, upon cause duly assigned in such notice; and the Registrar immediately after the expiration of the time for posting such list, shall forward the same and such notices as may be so served on him, to the Clerk of the Legislative Council. The Council may strike off from or add to such list, such name or names or any other name or names, as to the said Council may appear fit, and shall mark off, not less than twenty- four of the names contained in the list, and such names shall be formed into a separate list which shall be de- signated the Special Jurors List, and all other names contained in the said list shall be marked off in a separate list and be designated the Common Jurors List.