Striking jury panel

(1) The Registrar shall, not less than ten days before the first day of a sitting of the court in its criminal jurisdiction, strike and make out from the Jurors’ Book for the time being in force a panel of common jurors to serve at that sitting and shall set forth thereon the number, full Christian names and surname, occupation and residence of every juror on the panel as those particulars appear in the Jurors’ Book. (2) For the purposes of a sitting of the court in its criminal jurisdiction, the panel of common jurors shall be struck and made out as follows, Juries 19 (a) for a sitting at Belize City, from the jurors whose names appear in the Belize Administrative District Division of the list of common jurors; (b) for a sitting at Belmopan or San Igancio, from the jurors whose names appear in the Cayo Administrative District Division of the list of common jurors; (c) for a sitting at Dangriga, from the jurors whose names appear in the Stann Creek Administrative District Division of the list of common jurors; (d) for a sitting at Punta Gorda, from the jurors whose names appear in the Toledo Administrative District Division of the list of common jurors; (e) for a sitting at Corozal Town or Orange Walk Town, from the jurors whose names appear in the Corozal Administrative District Division and Orange Walk Administrative District Division of the list of common jurors. (3) The Chief Justice shall direct what number of jurors shall be included in that panel and rules of court may prescribe the manner in which panels shall be struck and made out. (4) The number of women appearing on any panel of jurors shall be in the same proportions, or as near as may be, to the number of men appearing thereon as the total number of women is to the total number of men in the Jurors’ Book from which the panel is struck. (5) A husband and wife shall not be summoned to serve on the same panel. 20 Juries (6) When two or more jurors at or belonging to any bank, counting-house, mercantile establishment, store or shop are liable to be summoned for service at the same sitting of the court, the Registrar shall include on the panel one only of those jurors for every five at or belonging to the bank or other establishment or place aforesaid and the other or others of them, if any, shall be liable to be summoned as jurors in the same manner at the next subsequent sitting of the court for the same district. (7) The Registrar shall exhibit a copy of the panel so struck and made out at the main door of the Registry for seven days at the least before the first day of the sitting to which the panel relates. (8) Every such panel shall, after the close of each such sitting, be filed in the Registry.