This Act may be cited as the Juries Amendment Act 1962, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Juries Act 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

This Act shall come into force on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and sixty-four.

Every person, whether a Maori or not, shall, if otherwise qualified, be liable and qualified to serve as a juror in accordance with the principal Act.

The principal Act is hereby consequentially amended in the manner indicated in the Schedule to this Act.

The Maori Jury Regulations 1927 and the Maori Jury Regulations 1927, Amendment No. 1, are hereby revoked.

Notwithstanding the provisions of section 2 of this Act, a notice may be given under section 144, section 146, or section 148 of the principal Act in respect of any trial commenced before the thirty-first of December, nineteen hundred and sixty-four, and, in any such case, the provisions of the principal Act and the regulations revoked by subsection (3) of section 2 of this Act shall apply with respect to the trial in all respects as if section 2 of this Act were not in force.