17Reduction of jury list or pool

17 Reduction of jury list or pool (1) If it appears to the Juries Commissioner, after the issue of summonses under section 27 but before the persons summoned attend for jury service, that, for any one or more days of their attendance, the number summoned is greater than the number that will actually be required, the Juries Commissioner may defer or cancel the jury service of all or a selected number of those persons. (2) If it appears that the number of persons attending for jury service at any sittings of a court exceeds the number reasonably required, the Juries Commissioner or the court may defer or cancel the jury service of all or a selected number of those persons.