REGISTRAR OF SUPREME COURT APPROVED JURORS NOTICE AVAILIABLE AT THE GENERAL POST OFFICE AND ALL SUB POST OFFICES

JURORS ACT 1971

            Pursuant to Section 11 of the Jurors Act 1971, I HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that copies of the Approved List will be available at the General Post Office and at all sub post offices for inspection by interested persons, free of charge, from Monday, 8^th February 2021 to Friday, 26^th March 2021 (both dates inclusive) each weekday from 8:30 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. 

            Any person who is aggrieved by the inclusion of his name in the Approved List and who claims to be exempt from or disqualified for jury service is invited to apply to the Registrar in the manner provided in Section 12 of the Jurors Act 1971. 

            Every person whose name is included in the Approved List shall be liable to serve as a Juror, notwithstanding that he might have claimed exemption or disqualification, if he fails to make such claim by Friday, 26^th February 2021.

            DATED at Hamilton this 27^th day of January 2021. 

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REGISTRAR OF THE SUPREME COURT

NOTE:  Section 12 of the Jurors Act is set out below:-

12.       (1)       If any person claims that owing to some disqualifications or exemption his name should not be included in the Approved List, he may within the period specified in the sub section (1) of Section 12, apply in writing to the Registrar to have his name struck off the Approved List.

            (2)       The Registrar shall as soon as may be, take each such application into consideration and within seven days after receiving the application -

                        (a)    in any case where he is satisfied that the applicant is disqualified or exempt from liability for jury service, shall strike off the applicant’s name accordingly; and

                        (b)    in every case shall inform the applicant of his decision in the matter.

            (3)       If the Registrar refuses to comply with an application made under sub section (1), the applicant may within seven days next after the date on which the refusal of the Registrar is notified to him, apply by notice in writing to the Registrar, to a Judge in Chambers for declaration that his name ought not to be included in the Approved List and pending the making of an order the Judge under sub section (4), the name of the applicant shall be deemed not to be included in the Approved List. 

            (4)       A Judge in Chambers shall deal with any such application in a summary way and make such order in the matter as appears just and