Act No. 67, 1901.
An Act to consolidate the statutes relating to
Jurors. [27th December, 1901.]
| Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative authority of the same, as follows :— | BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with |
PART I.
Preliminary.
1. This Act may be cited as the " J u r y Act, 1901," and is
divided into Parts, as follows :—
PART I . — P r e l i m i n a r y — s s . 1, 2,
PART IT.— Qualifications, disqualifications, and exemptions — ss. 3-7.
PART I I I .—Jurors ' districts—ss. 8, 9.
PART IV.—Jury lists- ss. 10-17.
PAPtT V.—Jurors ' books and special jurors' lists—ss. 18-22. PART Yl.—JJsts for new Courts—ss. 23-27.
PART VII.—Trial by jury—ss. 28-33.
PART VII I .—Jury precepts and summonses—ss. 31-53.
PART IX.— Challenge-ss. 51-58. PART X.—Striking and impanelling—ss. 59-65. PART Xl.—llefreslnnent—s. GO.
PART X I I . — D i s a g r e e m e n t — s s . 67, 68.
2 N PART
PAET XIII.— View by jurors—ss. 69-71. PART XIV.—Fees—ss . 72-79.
PART XV.—Fines, penalties, fyc.—ss. 80-88. 2. (I) The Acts mentioned in the Eirst Schedule to this Act
are to the extent therein expressed hereby repealed.
(2) All proclamations, rules, orders, notices, summonses,
precepts, lists, and jurors' books made or issued under the authority of
any enactment hereby repealed, and being in force at the time of the
passing of this Act, shall be deemed to have been made or issued
hereu ndcr.
TART II.
Qualifications, disqualifications, and exemptions. 3. Except as hereinafter provided every man above the age of
twenty-one years, residing in New South Wales, who has within New
South Wales in his own name or in trust for him—
(a)
a clear yearly income of at least thirty pounds by the year arising out of lands, houses, or other real estate ; or partly out of real and partly out of personal estate; or
(b)
a clear real or personal estate of the value of at least three hundred pounds,
shall be qualified and liable to serve on juries for the trial of all issues,
civil and criminal, and for the assessment of damages in all actions at
law, and to act as a juror in any District Court.4. No man—
(a) who is not a natural-born subject of the King, unless he has obtained letters of denization, or been naturalised, or has resided in NCAV South Wales for at least seven years; or (b) who has been attainted of any treason or felony, or convicted of any crime that is infamous, unless he has obtained a pardon thereof, or is within the benefit and protection of some Act
giving the force and effect of a pardon under the Great Seal
for such crime; or(c)