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Offences
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62. (1) Any person who, having been duly summoned as a juror under this Part, fails without reasonable excuse to attend in compliance with the jury summons or to attend on any day when required by the coroner for the coroner’s district of Dublin shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a class E fine.
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(2) A person shall not be guilty of an offence under subsection (1) in respect of failure to attend in compliance with a summons unless the jury summons was served at least 28 days before the date specified therein for his or her first attendance.
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(3) A juror who, having attended in pursuance of a jury summons, is not available when called upon to serve as a juror at a Stardust inquest, or is unfit for service by reason of drink or drugs, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a class E fine.
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(4) If any person who has been duly summoned as a juror under this Part makes or causes or permits to be made on his or her behalf a false representation to the county registrar or any person acting on his or her behalf, or to the coroner for the coroner’s district of Dublin, with the intention of evading service on the jury at a Stardust inquest, he or she shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a class E fine.
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(5) If any person makes or causes or permits to be made on behalf of another person duly summoned as a juror a false representation in order to enable that other person to evade service on the jury at a Stardust inquest, he or she shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a class E fine.
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(6) If any person refuses without reasonable excuse to answer, or gives an answer known to him or her to be false in a material particular, or recklessly gives an answer that is false in a material particular, when questioned by the coroner for the coroner’s district of Dublin for the purpose of determining whether that person is qualified to serve as a juror at a Stardust inquest, he or she shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a class E fine.
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(7) Any person who serves on the jury at a Stardust inquest knowing that he or she is ineligible for such service shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a class E fine.
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(8) Any person who serves on the jury at a Stardust inquest knowing that he or she is disqualified from such service shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a class C fine.
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(9) Any person who, on being called upon to be sworn as a juror under this Part, refuses to be sworn in a manner authorised by this Part or otherwise by law shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a class E fine.
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