Western Australian Consolidated Acts

JURIES ACT 1957 - SECT 43

43 .         Informalities in summoning jurors not to be cause for challenge

        (1)         An omission, error, irregularity, or informality, in the time or mode of service of a jury summons, or in the summoning or return of a juror by a wrong name where there is no question as to his or her identity, or in or with respect to any precept, ticket, panel or list, or any jurors’ list or book or the preparation thereof, or in the allocation of an identification number, is not cause of challenge either to the array or to any juror, and does not invalidate or affect any verdict in any trial, whether civil or criminal.

        (2)         A matter which may have been objected to by way of challenge to the polls, or to the array, as the case may be, but which was not objected to by way of challenge, does not invalidate or affect any verdict in any trial, whether civil or criminal.

        [Section 43 amended by No. 25 of 2003 s. 19.]