Jury Act Amendment Act 1937 (WA)

JURY.

1° GEO. VI., No. V.

No. 5 of 1937.

AN ACT to amend Section twenty-three of the Jury

Act, 1898.

[Assented to 29th October, 1937.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty,by and with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

Short title.

1.

This Act may be cited as the Jury Act Amendment Act, 1937, and shall he read as one with the Jury Act, 1898 (No. 10 of 1898), as reprinted in the Appendix to the Sessional Volume of the Statutes for the year 1928, hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.

Amendment

of a. 23. 2.

Section twenty-three of the principal Act is amended by adding thereto a proviso as follows :-

Provided that-

(i) if before the completion of the trial of one

issue a further issue is called on for trial, the said

ministerial officer shall, for the purpose of drawing

a jury for such further i.ssue, put into the said box the names of only those jurors on the empanelment who are not already engaged in the said uncom- pleted trial, and shall in open court draw therefrom until the names of a full jury appear who are not open to a challenge; and

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(ii) no issue shall be called on for trial if the trials of more than one other issue then begun remain uncompleted, unless the names of the jurors to be called -for the trial of such first-mentioned issue are to be drawn from a further empanelment which has been duly summoned and is in attendance.

3. The principal Act as amended by this Act may be citation of principal Act

cited as the Jury Act, 1898-1937. as amended.