Juries Act, 1927

Preparation and summoning of supplemental panel.

45.—(1) Whenever a panel of jurors has been summoned to attend a Court during a sitting any Judge of that Court may at any time or times during such sittings and for any reason which appears to him to be sufficient direct the empanelling officer and the summoning officer respectively to empanel and summon a supplemental panel of jurors to attend such Court on such day in such sittings as such Judge, when directing the preparation of such supplemental panel, shall specify.

(2) A supplemental panel prepared under this section shall be prepared and the jurors named therein shall be summoned in the like manner as nearly as may be, having regard to the length of the time between the direction for the preparation of such panel and the day specified by the Judge for the attendance of the jurors named in such panel, as a panel is required by this Act to be prepared and the jurors named therein are required by this Act to be summoned.

(3) The names of the jurors entered on a supplemental panel prepared under this section shall be called over in accordance with this Act on the day and at the time on and at which such jurors have been summoned to attend the Court and at the conclusion of such calling over such supplemental panel shall be added to and thenceforward form part of the panel first mentioned in this section.