Procedure on revision of lists

(1) The Proper Officer shall transmit three printed copies of both lists of jurors to the revising officer who shall, within fourteen days, but not sooner than seven days, after the publication of those lists, sit in his district for the revision Juries 15 thereof, and every person claiming to be added to, or exempted from, the lists or to have any alteration made in his name or description on the lists, may appear and prove his claim by oath or other evidence. (2) The Minister shall, by notice published in the Gazette, appoint a magistrate or other fit and proper person to be revising officer in each district for the purposes of this Act. (3) Where the qualification or exemption is claimed on the ground of salary it shall be proved by the evidence of the employer or his agent, or other proper evidence. (4) Where the qualification is claimed otherwise than in respect of salary, proof shall, where possible, be given by documents on record in the General Registry or, in their absence, by affidavit and other evidence to the satisfaction of the revising officer. (5) The Registrar, the Mayor of any City or Town Council, and the Commissioner of Police, and any district officer shall have the right of audience and may on proper grounds lodge objections to the inclusion or omission of any name and to the correctness of any description. (6) The revising officer may insert in the jury lists the name of any person whom he considers should not have been omitted, and may strike out the name of any person whom he considers to be improperly included, and may correct any error or omission whether of name, description or otherwise: Provided that, (a) except on the application of the person whose name or description is being dealt with, no inclusion, removal or alteration aforesaid shall be made unless that person has had two days’ notice in writing that application will 16 Juries be made to the revising officer at the sitting; and (b) in the absence of notice, the revising officer shall cause written notice to be given, fixing a convenient place and date, not earlier than three days from the date of notice, requiring him to show cause why the inclusion, removal or alteration should not be made. (7) The revising officer shall have, with regard to securing the attendance of witnesses before him, administering the oath and enforcing the giving of evidence, all the powers and authority which a magistrate possesses in an inferior court. (8) When the lists have been duly revised the revising officer shall sign them with his allowance thereof and, on or before 15th December next following, transmit them to the Registrar who shall, within seven days of the receipt thereof, cause them to be published in the Gazette and copies thereof to be exhibited at the main door of the Registry and at other conspicuous places in each district. (9) The Registrar shall keep the revised jury list for each district in the Registry and shall, immediately after receiving them, cause both the list of common jurors and the list of special jurors to be fairly copied in books to be entitled “The Central District Jurors’ Book for the Year”, “The Northern District Jurors’ Book for the Year ”, and “The Southern District Jurors’ Book for the Year” according as the same may be for the Central District, the Northern District or the Southern District, which Jurors’ Books shall be authenticated with the signature of the Registrar at the end of each page thereof. (10) The Registrar shall prefix to each name in the Jurors’ Books its proper number, beginning with the number “one” from the first name and continuing thence in regular numerical order down to the last name. Juries 17 (11) The Jurors’ Books shall be and remain in the custody of the Registrar. (12) The Registrar shall keep at his office a reasonable number of copies of the jury lists as signed and allowed by the revising officer and as may be varied by any order of the court and shall make them available, at the price of fifty cents a copy, to members of the public who have lawful business in connection therewith.