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JURIES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1974

JURIES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1974 - LONG TITLE

[18th December 1974]B Title, commencement and construction A> 1. (1)
This Order may be cited as the Juries (Northern Ireland) Order 1974
. . . Commencement . . . B>(2) This Order shall be construed as
one with the Juries Acts (Northern Ireland) 1871 to 1953 and those
Acts and this Order may be cited together as the Juries Acts
(Northern Ireland) 1871 to 1974. B Interpretation
[{5} European Assembly B>Representatives to the Assembly of the
European Communities.] B The Forces a prison within the meaning of
the Prison Act (Northern Ireland) |1953; <1968 c.34   a remand home, training school, or attendance centre within the meaning of the Children and Young Persons Act (Northern Ireland) |1968; or <1968 c.29 ]

Probation Officers and persons appointed to assist them.

[A person appointed by the Secretary of State under Article 7(11)
of the Treatment of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1976.]

Members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and the Royal Ulster
Constabulary Reserve and any other person employed in any capacity
by virtue of which he has the powers and privileges of a
constable.

Members and staff of the Police Authority for Northern Ireland and
persons employed for police purposes by the Police Authority for
Northern Ireland.

[Members and staff of the Police Complaints Board for Northern
Ireland.]

Persons in charge of, or employed in, a forensic science laboratory.

The Northern Ireland Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration and
the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Complaints.

Persons in the Northern Ireland Civil Service receiving salary on a
scale the maximum of which is not lower than the maximum on the
scale of an Assistant Secretary.

[The Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland and persons
appointed to assist him.]

The Comptroller and Auditor-General for Northern Ireland.

Officers of the Post Office.

Officers employed in any capacity by the Commissioners of Customs
and Excise, or Commissioners of Inland Revenue.

Officers in charge of a head office in Northern Ireland of a
department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

Inspectors appointed under section 123 of the Mines Act (Northern
Ireland) 1969.

A man in Holy Orders and a regular minister of any religious
denomination.

Vowed members of any religious order living in a monastery, convent
or other religious community.

Professors and members of the teaching staff of a university or
institution of further education and full-time teachers in any
school.

Masters of vessels, duly licensed pilots and lighthouse keepers.

The following persons, if actually practising their profession and
registered (including provisionally or temporarily registered), enrolled
or certified under the statutory provisions relating to that
profession:

Medical practitioners;

Dentists;

Nurses;

Midwives;

Veterinary surgeons and veterinary practitioners;

Pharmaceutical chemists.

Persons aged between sixty-five and seventy years who notify the
Juries Officer in the prescribed manner that they do not wish to
serve as jurors.

Persons suffering from mental disorder within the meaning of the
Mental Health Act (Northern Ireland) 1961.

Persons suffering from blindness, deafness or other permanent
infirmity rendering them unfit to serve on a jury.

Persons unable to understand the English language.

Para. 1 spent

2. In the year 1975 and in each subsequent year, for the purpose
of selecting the required number of jurors from the register of
electors, the computer shall be programmed

(a)to select every xth elector (where x is a number fixed by the
Chief Electoral Officer, having regard to the required number of
jurors); and

(b)not to select those electors

(i)whose names have been furnished by the several Juries Officers as
being disqualified or exempt from jury service, or

(ii)who have been selected in the preceding y years (where y is a
number fixed by the Chief Electoral Officer, having regard to the
required number of jurors).

Schedule 4Amendments. Schedule 5Repeals