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Jurors’ Books to be true record of jurors

Cap. 128, s. 13 · Revised Edition 2020

(1) Every Jurors’ Book so prepared and regularised shall be taken to be a true record of all persons qualified and liable to serve on juries for the district to which it relates for the twelve months subsequent to 31st December in any year, Provided that the Jurors’ Book shall remain in force until the next Jurors’ Book for the same district has been prepared. (2) Where in accordance with this Act the Registrar has struck and made out from a Jurors’ Book for any district while 18 Juries it remains in force by virtue of the proviso to subsection (1) of this section a panel of common or special jurors, (a) to serve at a sitting of the court in its criminal jurisdiction, every issue between the Crown and an accused person tried before a jury constituted from such panel in accordance with this Act at such sitting shall be deemed to be lawfully and validly tried, notwithstanding that before ordering such trial another Jurors’ Book for such district has come into force; (b) for the trial of the issue in any action, the issue in such action when tried before a jury constituted from such panel in accordance with this Act shall be deemed to be lawfully and validly tried notwithstanding that before ordering such trial another Jurors’ Book has come into force.
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