JURY.
No. 6 of 1887.
373
2. In all civil and criminal trials and in all inquiries into the idiocy, lunacy, or unsoundness of mind of any person, the jury, if any, shall, except where otherwise specially provided, consist of seven men.
3. 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 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: Provided that no person shall for the purposes of this Ordinance be deemed to hold an office or situation of emolument under the Crown by reason only of the fact that such person is a member of the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps and as such member is or may be entitled to receive any pay;
(3) salaried functionaries of foreign Governments not carrying on business;
(4) barristers-at-law and solicitors in actual practice, and their clerks;
(5) persons entitled to practise medicine and surgery under the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884, and persons entitled to practise dentistry under the Dentistry Ordinance, No. 1 of 1884;
(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 and ministers of the Jewish faith functioning in the Colony;
*As amended by No. 26 of 1914, No. 21 of 1917 and Law Am. Ord.; 1923.
Ordinance No. 16 of 1914.
JURY.
No. 6 of 1887.
373
2. In all civil and criminal trials and in all inquiries into Number of
jurors on the idiocy, lunacy, or unsoundness of mind of any person, trial. the jury, if any, shall, except where otherwise specially provided, consist of seven men.
disabilities.
3. Every male person between the ages of twenty-one and Qualifications Sixty years, being of sound mind and not afflicted with and deafness, blindness, or other 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 herein- after provided.
4. The following persons shall not be liable to serve as Exemptions Jurors:
(1) unofficial members of the Executive or Legislative Council;
(2) all persons holding any office or situation of emolu- ment under the Crown: Provided that no person shall for the purposes of this Ordinance be deemed to hold an office or situation of emolument under the Crown by reason only of the fact that such person is a member of the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps and as such member is or may be entitled to receive any pay;
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(3) salaried functionaries of foreign Governments not carrying on business;
(4) barristers-at-law and solicitors in actual practice, and their clerks;
from service.
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(5) persons entitled to practise medicine and surgery under the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884, and persons Ordinance entitled to practise dentistry under the Dentistry Ordinance, No. 1 of 1884. 1914;
(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
of Jews functioning in the Colony;
*As amended by No. 26 of 1914, No. 21 of 1917 and Law Am. Ord.; 1923.
Ordinance No. 16 of 1914.
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