Juries Act Amendment Act 1959 (WA)

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JURIES.

8° Elizabeth II., No. XXXV.

No. 35 of 1959.

AN ACT to amend the Juries Act, 1957.

[Assented to 30th October, 1959.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent

of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

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and eitatiOn. 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Juries Act

Amendment Act, 1959.

(2) In this Act the Juries Act, 1957, is referred

to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Juries Act, 1957-1959.

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2. Section fourteen of the principal Act isLI s' 'ended.

amended

(a)	by adding after the word, "district" in the last line of paragraph (a) of subsection (1), the passage, ", except a jury district referred to in paragraph (la) of this subsection)";
(b)	by adding after paragraph (a) of subsection (1) a paragraph as follows

(la) in respect of each such jury district as he selects, having regard to the small number of persons in that jury district who appear to be qualified for service as jurors, shall notify the Chief Electoral Officer to prepare a list of all persons

who are shown in the electoral rolls for the Assembly District or Districts which, or parts of which, comprise the jury district, to be living in the jury district; and

who appear to be qualified for, and not exempted from, service as jurors; and

(c)	by adding after the word, "ballot" in line two of subsection (2), the passage, "in accordance with the provisions of sub- section (2a) of this section,";
(d)	by adding after the word, "district" in line four of subsection (2), the passage, ", other than a jury district referred to in paragraph (la) of subsection (1) of this section,";
(e)	by adding after subsection (2) a subsection as follows

(2a) The Chief Electoral Officer shall select from each Assembly District or each part of an Assembly District which is comprised in a jury district, not being

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a jury district which is referred to in paragraph (la) of subsection (1) of this section, a quota of the jurors required by the Sheriff ascertained to the nearest whole number by

(a)	multiplying the number of electors on the roll of such Assembly District or shown on the roll to be residing in such part, by the number of jurors required by the Sheriff for the jury district; and
(b)	dividing the product obtained under paragraph (a) of this subsection by the total number of electors in the jury district. ;

by repealing subsection (3) and re-enacting

(f)

the subsection with amendments as

follows

(3) The Chief Electoral Officer shall

(a)	prepare a separate list of persons so selected for each jury district, other than a jury district referred to in paragraph (la) of subsection (1) of this section;
(b)	in respect of a jury district that is referred to in paragraph (la) of subsection (1) of this section, prepare a list of all persons of whom the Sheriff has notified him to prepare a list under the provisions of that paragraph,

and shall cause to be printed and sent to the Sheriff before the last day of February in the next succeeding year, such number of copies of each list as the Sheriff so requisitions. ;

(f) by substituting for the words, "a day is

fixed by proclamation for the coming into

operation of this Act" in lines four, five

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and six of paragraph (a) of subsection (12), the passage, "the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and sixty, being the date on which this Act was proclaimed to come into operation"; and

(g) by substituting for the word, "is" in line eight of paragraph (a) of subsection (12), the word, "was."