JURIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953

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JURIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 7



7.(1) The Minister may, after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice, from
time to time by regulations direct that, until further notice or for such
period as may be specified in the regulations, summonses for the attendance of
jurors... shall be served in such manner as may be specified in the
regulations, and service in accordance with those regulations shall be a
sufficient compliance with the provisions of any other enactment relating to
service of jurors' summonses.

(2) Regulations made under this section may contain provision for any one or
more than one of the following matters, viz.:

(a)for the serving of jurors' summonses by post or by process servers or
summons servers, sheriffs' bailiffs or such other officers or persons as the
Minister may think fit;

(b)for the keeping of records and receipts in respect of the issue and service
of jurors' summonses and the making of returns in connection therewith;

(c)for proving the service of jurors' summonses, including provision requiring
any officer or person to attend court to prove service and provision requiring
records and returns kept in respect of jurors' summons to be produced in
evidence;

(d)for preventing or hindering the evasion of service of jurors' summonses;
and

(e)for regulating generally the procedure to be followed and the duties to be
performed in connection with the summoning and attendance of jurors.

(3) Regulations under this section... may make different provision in respect
of the different courts for the attendance at which jurors may be summoned.

(4) Regulations under this section may provide for defraying out of moneys
provided by [the Parliament of the United Kingdom], to such extent and in such
manner as the Ministry of Finance may approve, the expenses (including the
payment to any officer or person of fees, allowances or remuneration in
respect of duties performed by him under any such regulations) incurred or to
be incurred in connection with serving and proving the service of juror's
summonses.

(5) Where regulations under this section direct the service of any jurors'
summonses by post, those regulations may provide that every juror's summons
which is posted in accordance therewith and is not returned by the Post Office
as undelivered shall, unless the contrary is shown, be deemed to have been
served on the person to whom the envelope containing it was addressed at the
time at which such envelope would have been delivered in the ordinary course
of post.

(6) All regulations made under this section shall be laid before each House of
Parliament as soon as may be after they are made and if either such House,
within the statutory period next after the day on which such regulations are
laid before it, resolves that the regulations be annulled, the regulations
shall thereupon cease to have effect, but without prejudice to the validity of
anything previously done thereunder or to the making of new regulations.

(7) In this section... "post" may, if regulations under this section so
provide, include registered post [or the recorded delivery service].

Subs.(8) rep. by SLR 1973

S.8 rep. by 1974 NI6 art.9(2) sch.5

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JURIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 7