Juries Act, 1927

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Exemption of jurors by judge.

48.—(1) Whenever a panel of jurors is required to be in attendance in a Court during any sittings, any Judge of that Court may, on any grounds which appear to him to be reasonable and sufficient, exempt any juror whose name is entered in such panel from attending as a juror during the whole or any particular part of such sittings.

(2) Whenever a panel of jurors is required to be in attendance in a Court during any sittings and it is made to appear to a Judge of that Court that a juror whose name is entered in such panel is by virtue of this Act or otherwise by law wholly exempt from or disqualified for serving as a juror, such Judge shall exempt such juror from attending as a juror during the whole or the residue (as the case may require) of such sittings.

(3) Whenever a juror is exempted under this or any other section of this Act (except the next following sub-section of this section) from attendance as a juror, the registrar shall enter in the panel opposite the name of such juror a note of such exemption and its duration.

(4) Whenever two or more juries drawn from the same panel are required to serve at the same time, any juror actually serving on any such jury shall, for the purpose of drawing any other such jury from such panel in the manner prescribed by this Act, be deemed while so serving to be exempted from attending as a juror.