Challenges for cause

(1) If the Crown or any accused person desires to challenge any juror for cause he shall state his cause for so objecting, and every such objection shall be decided in a summary manner by the judge whose decision thereon shall be final. (2) The causes for which an accused person may challenge a juror are, (a) the conviction of the juror, within the five years immediately preceding the trial for which the jury is being empanelled, of any offence or offences punishable with a sentence or accumulated sentences of imprisonment exceeding six months, he not having received a free pardon thereof; (b) the employment of the juror in any police function; (c) the relationship of the juror as husband, master, servant, landlord or tenant, to the person alleged to be injured or attempted to be injured by the offence charged or to the person on whose complaint the prosecution was instituted; (d) the employment of the juror by the person on whose complaint the prosecution was instituted or by his or her wife or husband; (e) the fact that the juror is or was the plaintiff or defendant in any civil cause in which the accused person or his or her wife or husband is or was a party; (f) the fact that the juror is or was a complainant or a defendant in a criminal cause in which the accused person, or his or her wife or husband, is or was a party; or Juries 27 (g) any circumstance which in the opinion of the court is likely to cause prejudice against the accused person or which renders a person improper as a juror. (3) If any such objection is allowed, another juror shall be called in his place and the proceedings shall continue in like manner as regards every other juror called until the proper number is drawn and approved as indifferent. jury.