Jury Ordinance amendment (1862) (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA,

ANNO YICESIMO QUINTO

VICTORIA: R

No. XVIII.

AN ORDINANCE to amend " The Jury Ordinance, 1858."

HEREAS no Provision exists for assembling Jurors at any

Wof Perth; And whereas it is necessary to provide for the AttendancePlace within the Colony beyond Thirty Miles from the City

of Jurors at the Supreme Court wheresoever the said Court shall from Time to Time hold its Sittings ; and it is further necessary to secure the Attendance of Jurors at such Meetings of General Sessions of the Peace as shall from Time to Time be convened under the Authority of Her Majesty's Commission of the Peace ; And whereas for the Purposes aforesaid it is necessary to amend " The Jury Ordinance, 1858 ;" Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Western Australia and its Depen- dencies by and with the Advice and Consent of the Legislative Council thereof:—

I. THAT the Words, " who has been a Resident within the

said Colony for a Period of Twelve Months, and who shall reside

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within Thirty Miles of the City of Perth," contained in the second Section of " The Jury Ordinance, 1858," be erased, and the Words, " residing within the said Colony," be substituted and read in the Place and Stead of the Words so erased ; and that the said second Section, so amended, be further altered and amended by adding thereto the Proviso hi the. Words following, " Provided, never- theless, that no Juror shall be compellable to attend at any Court, when such Juror shall reside beyond Twenty-five Miles of the Place 'appointed for holding such Court."

H. THAT the Words, " within Thirty Miles of the City of Perth," in the fifth Section of the aforesaid Ordinance, and the Words, " being within Thirty Miles of the said City," in the. seventh Section thereof, be erased.

III. THAT there be inserted hi the twelfth Section of the said

Ordinance immediately following the Words, " all Persons," the Words, " residing within Twenty-five Miles of the Place appointed for holding the said Court."

J. S. HAMPTON,

GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.

Passed the Legislative Council,

this 9th Day of June, 1862.

HENRY WAREFORD,

Clerk of the Council.

Printed by Authority at the Government Press.