JURY (AMENDMENT) ACT 1987 No. 286
NEW SOUTH WALES
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
1. Short title
2. Commencement
3. Amendment of Act No. 18, 1977
4. Consequential amendments of certain other Acts
SCHEDULE 1—AMENDMENTS TO THE JURY ACT 1977
SCHEDULE 2—AMENDMENTS TO THE JURY ACT 1977 BY WAY OF STATUTE
LAW REVISION
JURY (AMENDMENT) ACT 1987 No. 286
NEW SOUTH WALES
Act No. 286, 1987
An Act to amend the Jury Act 1977 to make further provision with respect to juries. [Assented to 16 December 1987]
Jury (Amendment) 1987
The Legislature of New South Wales enacts:
Short title
1. This Act may be cited as the Jury (Amendment) Act 1987.
Commencement
(1) Except as provided by this section, this Act shall commence on
a day occurring 28 days after the date of assent to this Act or on such earlier
day or days as may be appointed by proclamation.
2.
(2) Schedule 1 (5), (6), (22) and (23), and section 3 in its application to those provisions, shall commence on a day or days to be appointed by proclamation.
Amendment of Act No. 18, 1977
3. The Jury Act 1977 is amended as set out in Schedules 1 and 2.
Consequential amendments of certain other Acts
4. (1) The Oaths Act 1900 is amended—
(a)
by omitting from section 12 the matter "sections 13 and 14" and by inserting instead the matter "section 13"; and
(b) by omitting section 14.
(2) The Miscellaneous Acts (Community Welfare) Repeal and Amendment Act 1987 is amended by omitting so much of Schedule 3 to that Act as amends the Jury Act 1977.
SCHEDULE 1—AMENDMENTS TO THE JURY ACT 1977
(Sec. 3)
(1) Section 18 (Sheriff may amend jury roll)—
(a)
Section 18 (1) (a) (ii)— Omit "or".
(b)
Section 18 (1) (a) (iii), (iv)— After section 18 (1) (a) (iii) insert:
; or
(iv) who has served on a jury while on the roll and has duly requested to be excluded from the roll under subsection (5);
(c) Section 18 (5), (6)—
After section 18 (4), insert:(5) A person who—
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(a) is on a jury roll; and
(b) has served as a juror while on the roll,
may request to be excluded from the roll by notice given to the
sheriff at any time.(6) The exclusion of a person from a jury roll as a result of such a request does not affect an obligation under a summons issued to the person before the request was made.
(2) Section 22 (Continuation of trial or inquest on death or discharge of
juror)—
(a) Section 22 (a)—
Omit the paragraph, insert instead:
(a)
in the case of criminal proceedings, the number of its members—
(i) is not reduced below 10;
(ii) is reduced below 10 but approval in writing is given to the reduced number of jurors by or on behalf of both the person prosecuting for the…