Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022

Service of jury summons

56. (1) A jury summons shall be in writing and addressed to the person concerned by name, and may be so served on or given to the person in one of the following ways:

(a) by delivering it to the person;

(b) by leaving it at the address at which the person ordinarily resides;

(c) by sending it by prepaid registered post to the address at which the person ordinarily resides.

(2) In any proceedings for an offence of non-attendance in compliance with a jury summons or of not being available when called upon to serve as a juror at a Stardust inquest—

(a) a certificate by the county registrar for Dublin or an officer acting on his or her behalf that the registrar or officer posted a letter containing the summons addressed as provided in subsection (1) shall be evidence of the fact so certified,

(b) a certificate by the county registrar for Dublin or an officer acting on his or her behalf or a member of the Garda Síochána that he or she personally delivered the summons to the juror on a specified date shall be evidence of the fact so certified, and

(c) a certificate by the county registrar for Dublin or an officer acting on his or her behalf present when a person summoned to attend as a juror at a Stardust inquest failed to answer his or her name at the time it was called out at the place specified in the summons shall be evidence, unless the contrary is proved, that that person failed to attend in compliance with the summons, or was not available when called on to serve, as the case may be.

(3) A document purporting to be a certificate under this section of the county registrar for Dublin, or an officer acting on his or her behalf or a member of the Garda Síochána and to be signed by him or her shall be deemed, for the purposes of this section, to be such a certificate and to be so signed unless the contrary is proved.