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952 [ 18 OF 1887. ] JURY CONSOLIDATION .

Qualification
and exempº
4. Every male person between the ages of twenty -one and
tions. sixty years, being of sound mind, and not afflicted with deafness,
[No. 11 of
1864 , s. 4. ] blindness, or other such infirmity, who shall be a good and
sufficient person resident within the Colony , shall be qualified
and liable to serve as a juror, subject to the exceptions herein
after provided .
Exemptions 5. The persons hereinafter mentioned shall not be or be
serving deemed liable to serve as jurors.
fromjurors.
as
( a . ) Members of Council.
( 6. ) All persons holding any office or situation of emolu
ment under the Crown .
(c. ) Salaried functionaries of Foreign Governments pot
carrying on business.
( d. ) Barristers -at-law, solicitors in actual practice and
their clerks.
( e. ) Medical practitioners and surgeons registered under
The Medical Registration Ordinance No. 6 of 1884 ,
and dentists .
( f.) Editors of daily newspapers in the Colony and their
staff.

(g. ) Chemists and druggists actually carrying on business
as such .

(h. ) Clergymen of the Church of England , Roman Catholic
priests and ministers of any congregation of protest
ant dissenters or of jews, and schoolmasters.
( i. ) Officers employed on full pay in the Military or Naval
Service of Her Majesty.
(j. ) Masters of steamers and local pilots.
( k. ) Persons ignorant of the English language.
Exemption 6. If any person shall be summoned as a juror who shall
or want of
qualification under the terms of the preceding sections, be exempt from
to be a ground service or who shall not be qualified to serve as a juror or who
ofchallenge having been summoned as a special jurorshall not be qualified
but not of
avoiding trial. to serve as such, such exemption or want of qualification shall
be a good cause of challenge and the person so summoned 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 .