Juries Act, 1927

Preparation of panel of jurors from several districts.

35.—(1) Whenever under this Act a panel of jurors is to consist of jurors drawn partly from each of two or more jury districts, the empanelling officer for such jury district or the respective empanelling officers for such jury districts in consultation shall ascertain the total number of persons whose names are entered in the several jurors books for such jury districts and the number of persons whose names are entered in each such jurors book, and in preparing the panel the empanelling officer or the empanelling officers respectively shall select from each jurors book that number (as near as may be) of jurors which bears to the total number of jurors to be included in the panel the same proportion as the number of persons whose names are then entered in such jurors book bears to the total number of persons whose names are entered in all such jurors books.

(2) For the purpose of this section the number of persons whose names are entered in a jurors book shall be taken to be the multiple of one hundred nearest to the number of persons whose names were entered in such book when it first came into force, and all subsequent removals of names shall be disregarded, and any excess over a multiple of one hundred shall, if such excess does not exceed fifty, be disregarded and, if such excess exceeds fifty, be treated as one hundred.