1Jury Exemption Regulations

STATUTORY RULES

1970 No.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE JURY EXEMPTION ACT 1965.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Jury Exemption Act 1965.

Dated this nineteenth day of September, 1970.

Paul Hasluck

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

T.E.F. Hughes

Attorney-General.

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JURY EXEMPTION REGULATIONS

Citation.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Jury Exemption Regulations.

Interpretation.

2.—(1.) In these Regulations, “the Commonwealth Service” has the same meaning as in the Public Service Act 1922-1968.

(2.) In regulations 4 to 9, inclusive, of these Regulations a reference to a person shall be read as a reference to a person employed under the Public Service Act 1922-1968.

(3.) In these Regulations, a reference to the courts of the Territories of the Commonwealth shall be read as a reference to the courts of each of the following Territories, of the Commonwealth:—

(a) Australian Capital Territory;

(b) Northern Territory of Australia;

(c) Norfolk Island

(d) Territory of Papua and New Guinea, being the Territory of Papua and the Territory of New Guinea governed in an administrative union in accordance with the provisions of the Papua and New Guinea Act 1949-1968;

(e) Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands; and

(f) Territory of Christmas Island.

(4.) In these Regulations, a reference to a Schedule by number shall be read as a reference to the Schedule, so numbered, to these Regulations.

Exemption of members or specified statutory bodies.

3.—(1.) A person to whom this regulation applies is exempted from liability to serve as a juror—

(a) in Federal courts; and

(b) in the courts of the States or Territories of the Commonwealth.

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* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1970.

22532/69—Price 20c 10/16.6.1970

(2.) This regulation applies to—

(a) the Auditor-General for the Commonwealth;

(b) the Public Service Arbitrator;

(c) a Deputy Public Service Arbitrator;

(d) a Conciliator holding office under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1906-1970;