Western Australian Consolidated Acts

JURIES ACT 1957

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART I -- Preliminary  

   1.      Short title and commencement  
   3.      Terms used  
   3A.     Application of this Act to District Court

   PART II -- Liability to serve as jurors  

   4.      Liability to serve as juror  
   5.      Persons who are not eligible or not qualified or who are excused  
   8.      Verdict not affected

   PART III -- Jury districts  

   9.      Jury districts  
   10.     Area of jury districts  
   11.     Transitional provisions for alterations or abolition of Assembly districts  
   12.     Power to vary jury districts

   PART IV -- Jurors’ books, boxes and tickets  

   13.     Jury officers  
   14.     Electoral Commissioner to prepare jury lists  
   15.     Electoral Commissioner to prepare jury lists for new districts  
   16A.    Sheriff to prepare jurors’ book for each district  
   16.     Jurors’ tickets to be placed in boxes  
   17.     Duty of police

   PART V -- Numbers of jury  

   18.     Number of jurors for a criminal trial  
   19.     Number of jurors for a civil trial

   PART VA -- General jury precepts and panels  

   20.     General jury precepts  
   21.     Summoning officer  
   22.     Contents and issue of general jury precept  
   23.     Number of jurors to be summoned  
   24.     Oral precepts and amending or enlarging panel  
   25.     Power of appointment of alternative summoning officer where summoning officer has interest in trial  
   26.     Procedure for choosing jurors for criminal trials  
   27.     Extra people to be summoned to make up for people not attending  
   28.     Ticket of juror not attending to be returned to box  
   29.     Choosing of jurors for civil trials  
   29A.    Empanelling of jury for criminal and civil trials by computer  
   30.     Rights of parties in criminal trials to inspect list of summoned jurors  
   31.     Summoning of jurors

   PART VB -- Jury pools  

   32A.    Trials for which jury pools may be summoned  
   32B.    Summoning officer for jury pools  
   32C.    Selection of jury pool  
   32D.    Summoning officer to issue summons  
   32E.    Summoning officer may withdraw summons  
   32F.    Summoning officer to provide details to jury pool supervisor  
   32FA.   Jury pool supervisor to give identification number and explain certain matters to persons answering summons  
   32G.    Pool precept  
   32H.    Selection of jurors from jury pool  
   32I.    Period of attendance at jury pool and discharge

   PART VC -- Serving summonses and excusing people

           Division 1 -- Serving summonses  

   33.     Service of summons  
   33A.    Information to be given to summoned people  
   34.     Duty of secrecy in summoning jurors  
   34B.    Summoning officer to give identification number and explain certain matters to persons answering summons

           Division 2 -- Excusing people  

   34C.    Term used: summoned  
   34D.    Division does not affect rights to challenge for cause  
   34E.    Certificates permanently excusing people  
   34F.    Summoned people may apply to be excused  
   34G.    General powers to excuse summoned people  
   34H.    Deferring jury duty for summoned people or excusing them for good reason  
   34I.    People who are not indifferent, excusing  
   34J.    People who have done jury duty in previous 5 years, excusing

   PART VI -- Proceedings relating to criminal trials  

   35.     Summoning officer to return precept and panel, and cards  
   36.     Mode of empanelling jury for a criminal trial  
   36A.    Juror to be referred to by identification number  
   37.     Proceeding with another criminal trial when jury has retired  
   39.     Accused persons severing in their challenges  
   40.     Incorporation of certain provisions of Criminal Procedure Act 2004  
   41.     Jury’s entitlements when together  
   42.     Limit of attendance of jurors  
   43.     Informalities in summoning jurors not to be cause for challenge  
   43A.    Protection of security of jurors

   PART VII -- Proceedings at civil trials  

   44.     Payments for juries in civil trials  
   45.     Challenge to the array  
   46.     Discharge of juror  
   47.     Jurors may be allowed heating and refreshment  
   48.     Incapacity or non-attendance of juror  
   49.     Majority decision to be accepted after 3 hours  
   50.     New trial on disagreement

   PART VIII -- View, tales  

   51.     View by jury on a civil trial  
   52.     Party in criminal trial may pray a tales

   PART IX -- Offences, fines, penalties  

   53.     Neglect by officials to perform duties  
   54.     Offences by sheriff and others  
   55.     Offences by jurors and others  
   56.     Prejudicial actions against employees who do jury service

   PART IXA -- Jury confidentiality  

   56A.    Terms used  
   56B.    Protected information not to be disclosed  
   56C.    Protected information not to be solicited or obtained  
   56D.    Protected information not to be published  
   56E.    Lawful disclosure of protected information  
   57.     Jurors not to be photographed

   PART X -- Miscellaneous  

   57A.    Grand juries not to be summoned  
   58.     Application of English procedure where no special provision  
   58A.    Public not to be present when certain procedures are being followed  
   58B.    Jury service, payments for  
   59.     Enforcement of fines  
   60.     Operation of Coroners Act  
   61.     Rules of court  
   62.     Regulations
           SCHEDULE 1 -- Classes of persons not eligible to be jurors
           SCHEDULE 2 -- Matters to be disclosed by a person appearing in answer to a summons to be a juror
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