South Australia

   Juries (General) Regulations 1998

   under the Juries Act 1927

   Contents
   1 Short title
   3 Interpretation
   4 Persons ineligible for jury service
   5 Jury pools and jury panels
   6 Release of juror from further service
   7 Summons to juror

   Schedule 1--Forms

   Legislative history

   1--Short title

   These regulations may be cited as the Juries (General)
   Regulations 1998.

   3--Interpretation

   In these regulations--

   Act means the Juries Act 1927;

   approved computer program means a computer program approved by the
   Chief Justice for the purposes of these regulations;

   jury pool for a jury district for a particular month, means the jurors
   summoned to render jury service for the purposes of criminal inquests
   commencing in the jury district in that month (except those released
   from jury service and those comprising juries for inquests that have
   not been completed).

   4--Persons ineligible for jury service

   For the purposes of Schedule 3 of the Act, persons employed by the
   following prescribed body whose duties of office are connected with the
   investigation of offences, the administration of justice or the
   punishment of offenders are ineligible for jury service:

   Group 4 Correction Services Pty Ltd (ACN 050 069 255).

   5--Jury pools and jury panels

   (1) A jury panel for a criminal inquest commencing in a jury district
   in a particular month must be constituted from the jury pool for the
   district for that month as follows:

   (a) for each day of the month on which inquests are to commence (other
   than the day on which the jury pool is first required to attend) the
   sheriff must direct--

   (i) all of the jurors in the jury pool; or

   (ii) a number of the jurors in the jury pool selected in accordance
   with paragraph (b),

   to attend for the purpose of rendering jury service;

   (b) a selection of jurors from the jury pool for the purposes of
   paragraph (a)(ii) may be--

   (i) by ballot or by use of an approved computer program; or

   (ii) if having regard to the sittings of the courts and the number of
   jurors in the pool the sheriff has divided the jury pool into a number
   of sections by ballot or by use of an approved computer program--by the
   sheriff selecting one or more of the sections of the jury pool; or

   (iii) by some other means approved by the Chief Justice;

   (c) if only one inquest is to commence on a particular day in the
   month, the jury panel for the inquest is constituted of--

   (i) the jurors selected by the sheriff by ballot or approved computer
   program from amongst those who attend on that day in obedience to the
   summons or directions of the sheriff; or

   (ii) if the sheriff considers it unnecessary to make such a
   selection--all the jurors who attend on that day in obedience to the
   summons or directions of the sheriff;

   (d) if more than one inquest is to commence on a particular day in the
   month, the sheriff must divide the jurors who attend on that day in
   obedience to the summons or directions of the sheriff into separate
   jury panels and appropriate each panel to an inquest.

   (2) If a juror who attends on a particular day in obedience to the
   summons or directions of the sheriff is not included in a jury for an
   inquest, the sheriff may excuse the juror from further jury service on
   that day but the juror must next attend in obedience to the summons at
   a time and place to be directed by the sheriff.

   (3) Subject to the Act and these regulations, on completion of jury
   service in an inquest before the end of the month for which the juror
   has been summoned, the juror must next attend in obedience to the
   summons at a time and place to be directed by the sheriff.

   6--Release of juror from further service

   A court before which a jury has served may (in accordance with any
   applicable rules) release a juror who has served on the jury from
   further jury service in compliance with the juror's summons.

   7--Summons to juror

   For the purposes of section 30(1) of the Act, the form set out in
   Schedule 1 is prescribed.

   Schedule 1--Forms

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   Legislative history

   Notes

   o For further information relating to the Act and subordinate
   legislation made under the Act see the Index of South Australian
   Statutes.

   Principal regulations and variations

   New entries appear in bold.

   Year
       No
          Reference
                                  Commencement
   1998
       24
          Gazette 5.3.1998 p1082
                                  9.3.1998: r 2
   2004
       224
          Gazette 28.10.2004 p4091
                                  14.3.2005: r 2

   Provisions varied

   New entries appear in bold.

   Entries that relate to provisions that have been deleted appear in
   italics.

   Provision
   How varied

                                Commencement

   r 2
   omitted under the Legislation Revision and Publication Act 2002

                                  14.3.2005

   r 7
   inserted by 224/2004 r 4

                                  14.3.2005

   Sch 1
   inserted by 224/2004 r 4

                                  14.3.2005