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JURIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953

JURIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - LONG TITLE

An Act to provide for the making of payments in connection with
jury service; to abolish special juries and juries in the county
court; to make provision with respect to the service of jurors'
summonses and the challenge of jurors and for exempting practising
veterinary surgeons, women over the age of sixty, Parliamentary staff
and certain pharmaceutical chemists from jury service; and for
purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
[19th May 1953]
Payments in respect of jury servicePayments to be made in respect
of jury service.

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JURIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 1

1.(1) Subject to the following provisions of this section, a person
who serves as a juror shall be entitled, in respect of his
attendance at court for the purpose of performing jury service, to
receive payments, at rates determined by the Lord Chancellor with
the consent of the Minister for the Civil Service and subject to
any prescribed conditions, by way of allowance

(a)for travelling and subsistence; and

(b)for financial loss, where in consequence of his attendance for
that purpose he has incurred any expenditure (otherwise than on
travelling and subsistence) to which he would not otherwise be
subject or he has suffered any loss of earnings, or of benefit
under the enactments relating to national insurance and social
security, which he would otherwise have made or received.

(2) Subsection (1) shall apply to service on a coroner's jury.

(3) The determination of the amounts payable to persons under
subsection (1) and the manner of making those payments shall be in
accordance with arrangements made by the Lord Chancellor and all
such payments shall be made out of moneys provided by the
Parliament of the United Kingdom.

(4) In subsection (1) "prescribed" means prescribed by regulations
made by the Lord Chancellor with the consent of the Minister for
the Civil Service; and for the purposes of that subsection a person
who, in obedience to a summons to serve on a jury, attends for
service as a juror shall be deemed to serve as a juror
notwithstanding that he is not subsequently sworn.

(5) No person shall be entitled under any Act other than this Act
or under any rule of law, custom or agreement to payment for his
service as a juror.

JURIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 2

2. . . . ]

S. 3. rep. by SLR 1976

Abolition of special juries.

JURIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 4

4.(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, no issue or
question shall be tried or determined... by a special jury and no
person shall be summoned to serve as a special juror for the trial
or determination... of an issue or question, but where, but for the
passing of this section an issue or question would fall to be
tried or determined... by a special jury it shall be tried or
determined by a jury other than a special jury.

Subs.(2)(3) rep. by SLR 1976

JURIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 5
Discontinuance of terms ""common jury'' and ""common juror.''

5. . . . the expressions "common jury" and "common juror" shall
cease to be used.

S.6 rep. by 1959 c.25 (NI) s.154(3) sch.5

Power to prescribe method of service of jurors' summonses.

JURIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 7

7.(1) The Minister may, after consultation with the Lord Chief
Justice, from time to time by regulations direct that, until further
notice or for such period as may be specified in the regulations,
summonses for the attendance of jurors... shall be served in such
manner as may be specified in the regulations, and service in
accordance with those regulations shall be a sufficient compliance
with the provisions of any other enactment relating to service of
jurors' summonses.

(2) Regulations made under this section may contain provision for
any one or more than one of the following matters, viz.:

(a)for the serving of jurors' summonses by post or by process
servers or summons servers, sheriffs' bailiffs or such other officers
or persons as the Minister may think fit;

(b)for the keeping of records and receipts in respect of the issue
and service of jurors' summonses and the making of returns in
connection therewith;

(c)for proving the service of jurors' summonses, including provision
requiring any officer or person to attend court to prove service
and provision requiring records and returns kept in respect of
jurors' summons to be produced in evidence;

(d)for preventing or hindering the evasion of service of jurors'
summonses; and

(e)for regulating generally the procedure to be followed and the
duties to be performed in connection with the summoning and
attendance of jurors.

(3) Regulations under this section... may make different provision in
respect of the different courts for the attendance at which jurors
may be summoned.

(4) Regulations under this section may provide for defraying out of
moneys provided by [the Parliament of the United Kingdom], to such
extent and in such manner as the Ministry of Finance may approve,
the expenses (including the payment to any officer or person of
fees, allowances or remuneration in respect of duties performed by
him under any such regulations) incurred or to be incurred in
connection with serving and proving the service of juror's summonses.

(5) Where regulations under this section direct the service of any
jurors' summonses by post, those regulations may provide that every
juror's summons which is posted in accordance therewith and is not
returned by the Post Office as undelivered shall, unless the
contrary is shown, be deemed to have been served on the person to
whom the envelope containing it was addressed at the time at which
such envelope would have been delivered in the ordinary course of
post.

(6) All regulations made under this section shall be laid before
each House of Parliament as soon as may be after they are made
and if either such House, within the statutory period next after
the day on which such regulations are laid before it, resolves that
the regulations be annulled, the regulations shall thereupon cease to
have effect, but without prejudice to the validity of anything
previously done thereunder or to the making of new regulations.

(7) In this section... "post" may, if regulations under this section
so provide, include registered post [or the recorded delivery
service].

Subs.(8) rep. by SLR 1973

S.8 rep. by 1974 NI6 art.9(2) sch.5

JURIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 9
Challenge of jurors.

9.(1) A person arraigned... on indictment... may challenge not more
than twelve jurors without cause and any juror or jurors for cause.

(2) Upon the trial... of any person on indictment... any challenge
to jurors for cause shall be tried by the judge before whom the
accused is to be tried.

S.10 rep. by SI 1973/2163 art.14(2) sch.6; SLR 1973; 1974 NI6
art.9(2) sch.5

S.11 rep. by SLR 1973

JURIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 12
Short title and construction.

12.(1) This Act may be cited as the Juries Act (Northern Ireland),
1953, and shall be construed as one with the Juries Acts (Northern
Ireland), 1871 to 1926, and those Acts and this Act may be cited
together as the Juries Acts (Northern Ireland), 1871 to 1953.

Subs.(2) rep. by 1954 c.33 (NI) s.48(1) sch.

First Schedule rep. by SLR 1976. Second Schedule rep. by SLR 1973