Jury Amendment Act 1882 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

ANNO QUADRAGESEU0 SEXTO

VICTORLE REGIN}E

No. 12

An Act to amend The Jury Act, 1871!

[Assented to 21st September, 1 8 82.

HEREAS it is expedient to amend The Jury Act, 1871,' and

of any issue or cause depending in the Supreme Court, or of any civil W to make provision for the summoning of jurors for the trial

46 VICTORI2E. No. 12

Jury Act, 1871—Amendment

or criminal matter within the jurisdiction of such court, before a commissioner or commissioners of the said court at places other than Perth : Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Western Australia and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :-

1. Whenever the Governor shall appoint any commissioner or commissioners under the provisions of the twelfth section of • The	Mode of nummoning Jurors
for trial of cases
Supreme Court Act, 1880,' for any of the purposes declared in such	missioner ap-before a Com-
section, it shall be lawful for two Justices of the Peace of the district	pointed under • The Supreme
within which such commissioner or commissioners are directed to	Court Act, 1880'
exercise the jurisdiction vested in them by such commission, when- ever required by such commissioner or commissioners, by virtue of a precept under the hands of such Justices directed to the sheriff, bailiff, or other officer of the magistrate's court of such district, to summon such number of jurors as may be necessary for the trial of such issuas or causes as may be depending before or directed to be tried by such commission. Provided always, that the number of jurors so summoned shall in no case exceed the number of forty.
2. In the eighth line of the twenty-eighth section of the herein- before recited Act, the word attorney' shall be, and is repealed, and the word attorneys ' read instead thereof ; and in the twelfth line of the same section, the word twenty' shall be, and is hereby repealed, and the word ten ' shall be read instead thereof.
3. In the thirty-first (31st) section of the said Act, and in the third line thereof, there shall be inserted and read, after the word guinea,' the words 'per diem.'

4. This Act may be cited as The Jury Amendment Act, 1882,' Ebert tiro

and shall be read and construed as one with The Jury Act, 1871.'

WILLIAM C. F. ROBINSON,

GOVERNOR.