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JURIES ACT (IRELAND) 1871 - SECT 44

No money to be taken by any officer to excuse persons from serving.

44. No sheriff, coroner, elisor, bailiff, or other officer or person
whatsoever shall, directly or indirectly, take or receive any money or other
reward, or promise of money or reward, or any consideration whatsoever, or the
promise of any consideration, to excuse any man from serving or from being
summoned to serve on juries, or under any such colour or pretence; and no
bailiff or other officer appointed by any sheriff, coroner, or elisor to
summon juries, shall summon any man to serve thereon, other than those whose
names are specified in a warrant or mandate signed by such sheriff, coroner,
or elisor, and directed to such bailiff or other officer; and if any sheriff,
coroner, elisor, bailiff, or other officer shall wilfully transgress in any of
the cases aforesaid, or shall neglect to summon any juror any number of days
less than the number herein-before appointed for that purpose, the court
within whose jurisdiction such offence shall have been committed may and is
hereby required, on examination and proof of such offence in a summary way, to
set such a fine upon every person so offending as the court shall think meet,
according to the nature of the offence.

Ss.4549 rep by, SLR 1893 (No.2); 1953 c.19 (NI) s.11 sch.2; 1954 c.11 (NI)
ss.1, 3 sch.; SLR (NI) 1954; 1959 c.15 (NI) s.38 sch.; 1967 c.18 (NI) s.15(2)
sch.2 Pt.I; 1974 NI 6 art.9(2) sch.5; 1978 c.23 s.122(2) sch.7 Pt.I

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