270
No. 6 of 1887.
JURY.
Number of jurors on trial.
Qualifica-tions and disabilities.
Exemptions from service.
Ordinance No. 41 of 1935.
Ordinance No. 16 of 1914.
(a) "The court" means the Supreme Court. (b) "The Registrar" means the Registrar of the Supreme Court.
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 Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps or of the Hong Kong Police Reserve or of the Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force 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 duly registered as or deemed to be medical practitioners under the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1935, persons duly registered as dental surgeons under the Dentistry Ordinance, 1914, members of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons of Great Britain, and persons holding the diploma
† As amended by No. 8 of 1929 [28.6.29], No. 30 of 1933 [5.2.34], No. 21 of 1935 [26.4.35], No. 31 of 1936 [24.7.36] and Law Rev. Ord., 1937.
270
No. 6 of 1887.
JURY.
Number of jurors on trial.
Qualifica- tions and disabilities.
Exemptions from service. +
Ordinance No. 41 of 1935.
Ordinance No. 16 of 1914.
(a)" The court" means the Supreme Court. (b) "The Registrar
Court.
means the Registrar of the Supreme
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 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 Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps or of the Hong Kong Police Reserve or of the Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force and as such member is or may be entitled to receive any pay;
(3) salaried functionaries of foreign Governments not carry- ing on business;
(4) barristers-at-law and solicitors in actual practice, and their clerks;
(5) persons duly registered as or deemed to be medical practitioners under the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1935, persons duly registered as dental surgeons under the Dentistry Ordinance, 1914, members of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons of Great Britain, and persons holding the diploma
† As amended by No. 8 of 1929 [28.6.29], No. 30 of 1933 [5.2.34], No. 21 of 1935, [26.4.35], No. 31 of 1936 [24.7.36] and Law Rev. Ord., 1937.
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