Mode of empanelling the jury

(1) When any issue between the Crown and an accused person is to be tried, the Registrar shall ballot for the jury by placing in a box as many ballot papers or balls as there are jurors on the panel from which the jury is to be chosen, marked with the jurors’ numbers appearing on the panel and, after shaking the box in open court, drawing them out of the box one after another to the number required to constitute a jury and calling out the number thereon and the name of the juror ascertained from the panel as and when each ballot paper or ball is drawn. (2) If any juror whose name is called does not appear, or is challenged by the accused or made to stand aside on the demand of the Crown, another ballot paper or ball shall be drawn from the ballot box and the balloting be continued in like manner until the proper number of jurors is drawn and appears. (3) After the proper number of jurors has been drawn and approved as indifferent, their names shall be marked on the panel, and upon their being sworn they shall be the jury for the trial of the issue. (4) The ballot papers or balls containing the numbers of the jurors so drawn and sworn shall be kept apart until the jury has delivered its verdict, and the verdict has been recorded, or until the jury has otherwise been discharged, and shall then be returned to the box and mixed with the other ballot papers or 28 Juries balls then remaining undrawn, and so as often and as long as any issue remains to be tried. (5) If any issue comes on to be tried before the jury in any other issue has brought in its verdict or has been discharged, the Registrar shall ballot for the new jury, in manner aforesaid, from the residue of ballot papers or balls then in the box for the trial of the issue so coming on to be tried.