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Short Title

Jury districts

Notice to prospective jurors

Meeting of Justices

Juries Amendment Act 1966

Public Act		1966 No 36
Date of assent		7 October 1966

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Jury districts
3	Notice to prospective jurors
4	Meeting of Justices
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Juries Act 1908

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1 Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Juries Amendment Act 1966, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Juries Act 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Jury districts

(1)

The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing section 12, and substituting the following section:

“12

“(1)

For every city or town at which any sittings of the Supreme Court are held, which for the purposes of this Act is to be called a ‘Court town’, there shall be a jury district.

“(2)

Each such district shall include all places within fifteen miles by the most practicable route from the Courthouse in the Court town in which sittings of the Supreme Court are held.”

(2)

The following enactments are hereby repealed:

(a)

So much of the Schedule to the District Courts Abolition Act 1925 as relates to section 12(1) of the Juries Act 1908:

(b)

The Juries Amendment Act 1957:

(c)

So much of the Schedule to the Juries Amendment Act 1963 as relates to section 12(2) of the Juries Act 1908.

(3)

Nothing in subsections (1) and (2) of this section shall affect the validity of the jury lists and jury books in use on the passing of this Act and those lists and books shall continue to be used until replaced in accordance with the provisions of the principal Act.

3 Notice to prospective jurors

(1)

Section 17 of the principal Act (as substituted by section 5 of the Juries Amendment Act 1963) is hereby amended by inserting in subsection (4) after the word “and”, the words, “where his request was made on the ground that he resides outside the jury district,”.

(2)

Section 17 of the principal Act (as so substituted) is hereby further amended by repealing subsection (5).

(3)

Section 18 of the principal Act (as substituted by section 5 of the Juries Amendment Act 1963) is hereby amended by adding to subsection (2) the words “on the ground that they reside outside the jury district”.

4 Meeting of Justices

The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing section 19 (as substituted by section 5 of the Juries Amendment Act 1963), and substituting the following section:

“19

“(1)

The Sheriff of the jury district shall call, for the purpose of revising the jury list, a meeting of two or more Justices residing within the jury district, to be held on or before the tenth day of October of every year in which a list of jurors is prepared under section 14 of this Act, at some suitable building, in the Court town of the district.

“(2)

The Sheriff shall also, by notice in the prescribed form published in such manner as he thinks fit at least ten days before the day of the meeting, give public notice of the place, time, and date of the meeting of Justices.

“(3)

The Sheriff shall at the same time give notice to the Police and, by registered letter, to every person whose name was given to him pursuant to subsection (2) of section 18 of this Act of the place, time, and date of the meeting.”

This Act is administered in the Department of Justice.

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