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[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
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