Third

Session, 48th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2018

BILL 13

AN ACT TO AMEND THE JURY ACT, 1991

Received and Read the First Time .................................................................................................

Second Reading .................................................................................................................................

Committee ..........................................................................................................................................

Third Reading .....................................................................................................................................

Royal Assent ......................................................................................................................................

HONOURABLE

ANDREW PARSONS, Q.C.

Minister of Justice and Public Safety and Attorney

General

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Jury Act, 1991 to increase the minimum

age at which a person may apply to be exempted permanently from serving as a

juror.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE JURY ACT, 1991

Analysis

S.9 R&S

Permanent

exemption

S.23 Amdt.

Application for exemption

3. Transitional

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL1991 c16

as amended

Section 9 of the Jury Act, 1991 is repealed and the following substituted:

Permanent

exemption

(1) A

person who is

(a) 75 years of age or older;

(

b) mentally or physically incapacitated; or

(

c) suffering from an illness which may reasonably

be expected to be permanent

shall, on application, be exempted

permanently from serving as a juror.

(2) A person who applies for an exemption under

paragraph (1)(

a) shall provide proof of age satisfactory to the sheriff or the

deputy sheriff.

(3) A person who applies for an exemption under

paragraph (1)(

b) or (

c) shall provide a letter from a person licensed to

practise medicine in the province certifying his or her mental or physical

incapacity or that his or her illness may reasonably be expected to be

permanent.

2. Subsection 23(2) of the Act is repealed.

Transitional

3. A person who was exempted permanently from

serving as a juror immediately before the coming into force of this Act shall continue

to be exempted.

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