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Ineligibility and disqualification for service on jury at Stardust inquest
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54. (1) A person summoned to attend as a juror at a Stardust inquest shall, as soon as practicable after receipt of the jury summons, notify the county registrar for Dublin if he or she—
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(a) is ineligible or disqualified for service on the jury at a Stardust inquest, or
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(b) is one of the persons specified in Part II of the First Schedule to the Act of 1976 and wishes to be excused from such service.
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(2) The county registrar for Dublin shall excuse any person whom he or she has summoned as a juror under this Part if—
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(a) that person is one of the persons specified in Part II of the First Schedule to the Act of 1976 and informs the county registrar of his or her wish to be excused,
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(b) that person shows to the satisfaction of the county registrar that he or she has served on a jury, or duly attended to serve on a jury, in the three years ending with the service of the summons on him or her, or
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(c) that person shows to the satisfaction of the county registrar that, at the conclusion of a trial, a judge of any court has excused him or her from jury service for a period that has not terminated.
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(3) The county registrar for Dublin may excuse any person whom he or she has summoned as a juror under this Part from attendance as a juror at a Stardust inquest if that person shows to the registrar’s satisfaction that there is good reason why he or she should be so excused.
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(4) If a person summoned as a juror under this Part is unable, owing to illness or any other reason, to make any representation to the county registrar for Dublin under subsection (1), (2) or (3), another person may make the representation on his or her behalf.
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(5) A person whom the county registrar for Dublin has refused to excuse may appeal against the refusal to the Circuit Court not later than 21 days after the receipt of the decision of the county registrar under appeal.
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(6) The jurisdiction conferred on the Circuit Court by this section shall be exercised by a judge of the Circuit Court for the time being assigned to the Dublin Circuit.
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(7) The procedure for the appeal, including the designation of the judge to hear the appeal, and the time within which and the manner in which it shall be brought, shall be as provided by directions of the President of the Circuit Court.
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(8) The decision of the Court shall be final.
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(9) When a person is required to be in attendance as a juror at a Stardust inquest, the coroner for the coroner’s district of Dublin shall have the same duty or discretion, as the case may be, as that imposed or conferred on the county registrar under this section to excuse that person from attendance or further attendance and may, for good reason, excuse the juror prior to and during the course of a Stardust inquest from further service as a juror at the inquest.
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