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This Act may be cited as the Jury Exemption Act 1965.
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This Act removes the obligation to serve on juries for persons listed in its Schedule and allows the Governor‑General to make regulations exempting classes of Commonwealth employees from jury service. It applies to Federal, State and Territory courts.
It matters because it shifts who must attend jury duty, gives the executive power to expand exemptions, and creates an administrative duty on courts and agencies to avoid summoning exempt persons (see s4 and s5).
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Direct links to the current provisions in Jury Exemption Act 1965.
This Act may be cited as the Jury Exemption Act 1965.
This Act shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by Proclamation.
(1) A person, or a person included within a class of persons, referred to in the Schedule to this Act is not liable, and shall not be summoned, to serve as a juror in a Federal court, a court of a State or a court of a Territory. (2) The Governor‑General may make regulations for or in relation to: (a) exempting a Commonwealth employee, or a person included within a class of Commonwealth employees, specified in the regulations from liability to serve as a juror: (i) in Federal courts; (ii) in Federal courts exercising jurisdiction in a specified State or Territory; or (iii) in the courts of a specified Territory; and (b) exempting a Commonwealth employee, or a person included within a class of Commonwealth employees, specified in the regulations from liability to serve as a juror in the courts of the States or in the courts of a specified State. (3) A Commonwealth employee shall not be summoned to serve as a juror in a court in which, by reason of the regulations, he or she is exempt from serving as a juror. (4) In this section, Commonwealth employee means: (a) a person employed under an Act; and (b) a member, officer or employee of a body established by or under an Act.
Nothing in this Act operates so as to affect the validity of any verdict or judgment taken or given, or anything done, in proceedings in which a person who, by reason of this Act or the regulations, is not liable to serve as a juror serves as a juror.
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This Act may be cited as the Jury Exemption Act 1965.
This Act shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by Proclamation.
(1) A person, or a person included within a class of persons, referred to in the Schedule to this Act is not liable, and shall not be summoned, to serve as a juror in a Federal court, a court of a State or a court of a Territory. (2) The Governor‑General may make regulations for or in relation to: (a) exempting a Commonwealth employee, or a person included within a class of Commonwealth employees, specified in the regulations from liability to serve as a juror: (i) in Federal courts; (ii) in Federal courts exercising jurisdiction in a specified State or Territory; or (iii) in the courts of a specified Territory; and (b) exempting a Commonwealth employee, or a person included within a class of Commonwealth employees, specified in the regulations from liability to serve as a juror in the courts of the States or in the courts of a specified State. (3) A Commonwealth employee shall not be summoned to serve as a juror in a court in which, by reason of the regulations, he or she is exempt from serving as a juror. (4) In this section, Commonwealth employee means: (a) a person employed under an Act; and (b) a member, officer or employee of a body established by or under an Act.
Nothing in this Act operates so as to affect the validity of any verdict or judgment taken or given, or anything done, in proceedings in which a person who, by reason of this Act or the regulations, is not liable to serve as a juror serves as a juror.