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23 1927

JURIES ACT, 1927

PART II.

Registration of Jurors.

Definitions in relation to Part II.

6. —(1) This Part of this Act shall be read as one with the Electoral Act, 1923 (No. 12 of 1923), and accordingly all expressions and words used in this Part of this Act which are also used in that Act have the same meanings in this Part of this Act as they have in that Act.

(2) In this Part of this Act all references to the register of electors for a jury district shall be construed as references (as the case may require) either to the register of electors for the registration area which is co-terminous with such jury district or to so much of the register of electors for the registration area containing such jury district as relates to the portion of such area contained within such district.

Inclusion of jurors lists in registers of electors.

7. —(1) Every register of electors to be prepared pursuant to the Electoral Act, 1923 , shall, in addition to the matters required by that Act to be shown therein, show in the prescribed manner in respect of each person whose name appears therein whether he is or is not qualified and liable to serve or is disqualified or exempted from serving as a juror in respect of the jury district to which the register relates.

(2) It shall be the duty of the registration officer to include and identify in the prescribed manner in the electors' lists to be prepared by him pursuant to the Electoral Act, 1923 , the names of all persons in each registration unit in his registration area appearing to be qualified and liable to serve as jurors or to be disqualified or exempted from so serving.

(3) The several lists of claimants, of persons to whose registration notice of objection has been given, and of claimants to whose registration notice of objection has been given, prepared by a registration officer pursuant to the Electoral Act, 1923 , shall distinguish in the prescribed manner which of the persons whose names are included in such lists appear to be qualified and liable to serve as jurors or to be disqualified or exempted from so serving.

(4) The provisions of Parts II and VIII of the Electoral Act, 1923 , and of the First and Ninth Schedules of that Act shall, so far as the same are not inconsistent with this Act, apply to the matters required by this Act to be included in the register of electors and in the electors' lists and in other lists respectively in like manner as those provisions apply to the matters required by the Electoral Act, 1923 , to be included in the said Register and lists respectively.

(5) This section shall not apply to a university constituency or to the registration officer, register of electors, electors lists or other lists for such constituency.

Place of registration of jurors.

8. —(1) The liability of a person to serve as a juror in respect of any jury district shall be entered in the register of electors for such jury district at the place in such register at which such person is entered therein as an elector notwithstanding that his qualification for serving as juror may be in respect of other lands than those at which his address as stated in such register is situate.

(2) The disqualification or exemption of a person for or from serving as a juror shall be entered in the register of electors and at the place therein in and at which his liability to serve as a juror would have been entered if he were not so disqualified or exempt.

Additional duties of rate collectors and registration officers.

9. —(1) Any person holding the office of rate collector may, in addition to the duties mentioned in paragraph (a) of Rule 7 of the First Schedule to the Electoral Act, 1923 , be required to furnish such information in relation to the persons rated for the relief of the poor in his district as may be necessary for the inclusion in the electors lists and the register of electors of the matters required by this Act to be included in those lists and that register respectively.

(2) The registration officer shall, in addition to the duties imposed on him by Rule 22 of the First Schedule to the Electoral Act, 1923 , make such alterations and corrections in the electors lists as he thinks necessary in order to secure that no person is entered more than once in the register of electors for his registration area as a person qualified and liable to serve as a juror.

Appeals in relation to jurors lists.

10. —(1) No appeal shall lie under section 16 of the Electoral Act, 1923 , from any decision of the registration officer in relation to any matter required by this Act to be included in the register, and in lieu of such appeal, an appeal shall lie to the Judge of the Circuit Court having jurisdiction in the registration area from any decision of the registration officer on any question of law or fact in relation to any matter required by this Act to be included in the register, and such appeal may be brought although the appellant did not appear before, or send any claim or objection to, the registration officer.

(2) Where the appellant did not appear before, or send any claim or objection to, the registration officer, the appeal under this section shall be brought before the 26th day of April next after the decision of the registration officer is given, and in every other case the appeal under this section shall be brought within seven days after the decision of the registration officer is given.

(3) The qualification and liability of an appellant to serve as a juror shall not be affected by the fact that an appeal is pending under this section, and until such appeal is finally disposed of the qualification and liability aforesaid shall continue as if no such appeal had been brought.

Expenses of execution of Part II. of Act.

11. —(1) The expenses of the execution of this Part of this Act shall be paid, in the case of a county, by the council of that county out of the poor-rate as a county-at-large charge, and in the case of a county borough by the council of that county borough out of the rate or fund out of which the general expenses of the council are paid, or out of any other rate or fund which the Minister for Local Government and Public Health may, on the application of the council, approve.

(2) No secretary or clerk of the council of a county or county borough, clerk of an urban district council, or rate-collector or person acting as rate-collector appointed after the 15th day of November, 1923, shall receive any fees or other remuneration or any expenses in respect of duties performed by him in the execution of this Part of this Act.

Amendment of section 12 of Electoral Act, 1923 .

12. —(1) There shall be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas to the council of every county or county borough in aid of the fund or rate out of which any registration expenses are paid by that council in accordance with the Electoral Act, 1923 , the following proportions of the registration expenses so paid, that is to say:—

(a) one-fourth of the amount paid by the council to the registration officer in respect of duties performed by any of the following officers who has or shall have been appointed after the 15th day of November, 1923, that is to say, in the case of an administrative county, the secretary of the council of the county or the clerk of the council of any urban district within the county, and, in the case of a county borough, the secretary or clerk of the council of the county borough, and

(b) one-third of the amount paid by the council to the registration officer in respect of duties performed by rate-collectors appointed after the 15th day of November, 1923, and

(c) one-half of all other registration expenses paid by the council aforesaid.

(2) Three-sevenths of the cost of the printing mentioned in sub-section (7) of section 12 of the Electoral Act, 1923 , shall, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in that sub-section, be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas, and four-sevenths of the said costs shall be paid by the council by which the registration expenses of which such printing forms part are payable.