2152
Names for and mode of obtaining jury list.
[No. 24 of 1882, s. 2.]
Formation of lists of common and special jurors.
[No. 24 of 1882, s. 3, 4 & 17.]
List to be returned to the Registrar.
ORDINANCE No. 18 OF 1887.
Jury Consolidation.
moned 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 designated 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.
9. The said list when finally settled shall be returned to the Registrar by the clerk of Council and called the Jurors List, and shall be brought into use on the first day of March next following and shall continue in force for one year from the said first day of March.
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2152
Names for and inode of obtaining jury list.
[No. 24 of 1882, s. 2.]
Formation of lists of
common
and special
jurors.
[No. 24 of
1882, 8.8, 4 & 17.]
List to be returned to the Registrar.
ORDINANCE No. 18 OF 1887.
Jury Consolidation.
moned shall be discharged upon such challenge or upon his own applica- tion, 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 profes- sion, 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 occupa- tion 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 desig- nated 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.
9. The said list when finally settled shall be returned to the Regis- trar by the clerk of Council and called the Jurors List, and shall be brought into use on the first day of March next following and shall continue in force for one year from the said first day of March
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