552
Exemptions from service.
Sec Ordinance
No. 1 of 1884.
Want of qualification
or exemption to be ground
of challenge but not of avoiding trial.
Duty to send
in name for jury list.
Formation of lists of com-
No. 6.]
THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG : [A.D. 1887.
4. The persons hereinafter mentioned shall not be or be deemed liable to serve as jurors; that is to say,
(1.) members of Council;
(2.) all persons holding any office or situation of emolument under
the Crown;
(3.) salaried functionaries of Foreign Governments not carrying on
business;
(4.) barristers-at-law and solicitors in actual practice, and their clerks;
(5.) medical practitioners and surgeons registered under any Ordinance for the time being in force relating to the registration of medical practitioners and dentists;
(6.) editors of daily newspapers in the Colony and their staff;
(7.) chemists and druggists actually carrying on business as such;
(8.) clergymen of the Church of England, Roman Catholic priests, ministers of any congregation of Protestant dissenters or of Jews, and schoolmasters;
(9.) officers employed on full pay in the Naval or Military Service
of Her Majesty;
(10.) masters of steamers and local pilots; and
(11.) persons ignorant of the English language.
5. If any person is summoned as a juror who, under the terms of the preceding sections, is not qualified to serve as a juror, or is exempt from service, or, having been summoned as a special juror, is not qualified to serve as such, such want of qualification or exemption shall be a good cause of challenge and the person so summoned shall be discharged on such challenge or on his own application, if the Court is satisfied of the fact and so directs; but no such want of qualification, or exemption, 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 such person has served,
Making up of Jurors List.
6. 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 the Registrar or some person duly authorized by him, forward to the Registrar in writing, within the time specified in the said demand, his name and surname at full length, together with his profession, business, or occupation and place of abode, under penalty for refusing or neglecting to do so of a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, on conviction before a Magistrate.
7.-(1.) The Registrar shall, on or before the first day of February in each year make a list in alphabetical order of all persons ascertained
552
Exemptions from service.
SecOrdinance
No. 1 of 1884.
Want of qualification
or exemption to be ground
of challenge but not of avoiding trial.
Duty to send
in name for jury list.
Formation of lists of com-
No. 6.]
THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG : [A.D. 1887.
4. The persons hereinafter mentioned shall not be or he deemed liable to serve as jurors; that is to say,
(1.) members of Council;
(2.) all persons holding any office or situation of emolument under
the Crown;
(3.) salaried functionaries of Foreign Governments not carrying on
business;
(4.) barristers-at-law and solicitors in actual practice, and their clerks; (5.) medical practitioners and surgeons registered under any Ordi- nance for the time being in force relating to the registration of medical practitioners and dentists;
(6.) editors of daily newspapers in the Colony and their staff; (7.) chemists and druggists actually carrying on business as such ; (8.) clergymen of the Church of England, Roman Catholic priests, ministers of any congregation of Protestant dissenters or of Jews. and schoolmasters ;
(9.) officers employed on full pay in the Naval or Military Service
of Her Majesty:
(10.) masters of steamers and local pilots; and
(11.) persons ignorant of the English language.
5. Il any person is summoned as a juror who, under the terms of the preceding sections, is not qualified to serve as a juror, or is exempt from service, or, having been summoned as a special juror, is not qualified to serve as such, such want of qualification or exemption shall be a good cause of challenge and the person so summoned shall be discharged on such challenge or on his own application, if the Court is satisfied of the fact and so directs; but no such want of qualification, or exemption, 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 such person has served,
Making up of Jurors List.
6. 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 the Registrar or some person duly authorized by him. forward to the Registrar in writing, within the time specified in the said demand, his name and surname at full length, together with his profes- sion, business, or occupation and place of abode, under penalty for refus- ing or neglecting to do so of a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, on conviction before a Magistrate.
7.-(1.) The Registrar shall, on or before the first day of February in each year make a list in alphabetical order of all persons ascertained
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