Disqualification for service as juror

No person who, (a) is unable to speak, read and write English; (b) has, within five years immediately preceding the date of the preparation or revision of the jury lists, or the date of trial for which a jury is being empanelled, been convicted of any offence or offences punishable with a sentence or accumulated sentences of imprisonment exceeding six months, unless he has received a free pardon in respect thereof; (c) is over sixty or under eighteen years of age; (d) is suffering, at the date of the preparation or revision of the jury lists or at the date of trial for which a jury is being empanelled, from deafness, dumbness, blindness, unsoundness of mind or other serious physical or mental incapacity; or (e) is by his sole profession a consular officer of a foreign country of which he is a subject, Juries 9 shall be qualified to serve on juries.