Criminal Justice Act 1967

14 Disqualification of ex-prisoners from serving on juries in criminal proceedings.

(1) The following persons shall be disqualified from serving on a jury in any criminal proceedings, that is to say—

(a) any person who at any time during the ten years immediately preceding the date on which the jury is sworn for the purpose of those proceedings has served, in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man, any part of a sentence of imprisonment or detention, being a sentence for a term of three months or more;

(b) any person who has been sentenced at any time in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man to imprisonment or detention for life or for a term of five years or more or to penal servitude for such a term.

(2) For the purposes of the foregoing subsection a person sentenced to borstal training shall be treated as if he had been sentenced for a term of more than three months, and a person sentenced to be detained for an offence during Her Majesty's pleasure or during the pleasure of the Governor of Northern Ireland shall be treated as if he had been sentenced to detention for life.

(3) A person who serves on a jury in any criminal proceedings when disqualified by this section from doing so shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £250.

(4) Section 38(2) to (5) of the [1961 c. 39.] Criminal Justice Act 1961 (construction of references to sentences, imprisonment or detention and similar expressions) shall apply for the purposes of this section as it applies for the purposes of Part III of that Act.

(5) Any sheriff or other officer having power to summon persons to serve on juries in criminal proceedings shall send with every summons for that purpose a notice stating the effect of the foregoing provisions of this section.

(6) For the purposes of section 27 of the [1825 c. 50.] Juries Act 1825 (challenge of jurors not qualified according to that Act), in its application to criminal proceedings, a person disqualified from serving on a jury by this section shall be treated as not qualified according to that Act.

(7) Section 2(1) of the [1922 c. 11.] Juries Act 1922 (liability of persons included in jurors books to serve notwithstanding their disqualification) shall not apply to any person disqualified from serving on a jury by this section.

(8) Section 10 of the [1870 c. 77.] Juries Act 1870 (disqualification of persons convicted of infamous crimes) shall not apply to criminal proceedings.