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such infirmity, who is a good and sufficient person resident within the Colony, and is not ignorant of the English language, shall be qualified and liable to serve as a juror, subject to the exceptions hereinafter provided.
4. The following persons shall not be liable to serve as jurors :-- (1) unofficial members of the Executive or Legislative 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) registered medical practitioners and surgeons, 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 functioning in the Colony;
(9) masters of any school other than a vernacular school in the Colony; professors, lecturers, and other academic officers of the University of Hongkong;
(10) officers employed on full pay in the naval or military service of His Majesty; and
(11) masters of steamers and local pilots.
5. If any person is summoned as a juror who is not qualified or liable 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.
* As amended by No. 19 of 1911, No. 50 of 1911, No. 51 of 1911, No. 62 of 1911, No. 63 of 1911 and No. 8 of 1912.
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378.
Exemptions
from service.
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of challenge but not of
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No. 6 of 1887.
JURY.
such infirmity, who is a good and sufficient person resident within the Colony, and is not ignorant of the English language, shall be qualified and liable to serve as a juror, subject to the exceptions hereinafter provided.
4. The following persons shall not be liable to serve as jurors :-- (1) unofficial members of the Executive or Legislative 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) registered medical practitioners and surgeons, 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 functioning in the Colony;
(9) masters of any school other than a vernacular school in the Colony; professors, lecturers, and other academic officers of the University of Hongkong;
(10) officers employed on full pay in the naval or military service of His Majesty ; and
(11) masters of steamers and local pilots.
5. If any person is summoned as a juror who is not qualified or to be ground liable 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, avoiding trial. 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.
* As amended by No. 19 of 191, No. 50 of 1911, No. 51 of 1911,
No. 62 of 1911, No. 63 of 1911 and No. 8 of 1912. As amended by No. 62 of 1911 and No. 63 of 1911.
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