http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1996/1141/contents/2006-01-01The Juries (Northern Ireland) Order 1996texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2024-01-312006-01-01The Juries (Northern Ireland) Order 1996art. 2(3)Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015Sch. 9 Pt. 5s. 106(2)The Juries (Northern Ireland) Order 1996Introductory1Title and commencement2InterpretationQualification for jury service3Qualification for jury servicePreparation of Jurors Lists4Preparation of Jurors ListsEmpanelling of jurors5Selection of names6Form of panel7Inspection of panelSummoning of jurors8Summoning of jurors9Procedure for ascertaining attendance of jurors10Excusing of jurors11Discharge of jury summonsBalloting of jurors12Balloting of jurorsChallenges13Challenge to the panel14Challenges in civil cases15Challenges in criminal cases16Challenge for name not being on Jurors List17Restrictions on right of challengeAdditional powers of the court18Selection of additional jurors19Views20Separation and detention of jurors21Continuance of criminal trial on death or discharge of juror22Discharge in civil proceedings23Refreshment of jurors24Excusing of jurors from jury service at end of exceptionally exacting trialOffences25Failure to fill up and return form of return26Defaulting jurors26ARestriction on disclosure of juror information26BDisclosure of juror information: lawful authority26CInterpretation of Articles 26A and 26BMiscellaneous and supplementary27Juror's oath28Payments to be made in respect of jury service29Certain formal defects not to invalidate verdict or finding30Regulations31Coroners' juries32Amendments, repeals and savingSCHEDULESSCHEDULE 1PERSONS DISQUALIFIED FOR JURY SERVICE1Any person who has at any time been convicted by a court in the United...This div-1 has a number but no title; creating a P1group with an empty Title2Any person who at any time in the last ten years has in the United...This div-1 has a number but no title; creating a P1group with an empty Title3Any person who at any time in the last five years has, in the United...SCHEDULE 2PERSONS INELIGIBLE FOR JURY SERVICEPersons concerned with the administration of justice Persons holding or who have at any time...Persons concerned with the administration of justicePersons holding or who have at any time held any paid, judicial, or other office...Persons holding or who have at any time held any paid, judicial, or other office...Lay magistrate.Lay magistrate.Justices of the peace.Justices of the peace.. . .. . .The Chairman or President, the Vice-Chairman or Vice-President and the registrar and assistant registrar of...The Chairman or President, the Vice-Chairman or Vice-President and the registrar and assistant registrar of...Barristers at law and solicitors whether or not in actual practice as such.Barristers at law and solicitors whether or not in actual practice as such.Solicitors' clerks.Solicitors' clerks.Students of the Inn of Court of Northern Ireland or of the Law Society of...Students of the Inn of Court of Northern Ireland or of the Law Society of...The Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland, the Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions for...The Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland, the Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions for...Officers of the Northern Ireland Office or of the Lord Chancellor's Department.Officers of the Northern Ireland Office or of the Lord Chancellor's Department.Officers of the Department of JusticeOfficers of the Department of JusticeMembers of the Northern Ireland Court Service.Court security officers.Court security officers.Governors, chaplains and other officers of, and members of independent monitoring boards for, the following...Governors, chaplains and other officers of, and members of independent monitoring boards for, the following...The warden or a member of the staff of a bail hostel as defined in...The warden or a member of the staff of a bail hostel as defined in...Members of the Probation Board for Northern Ireland.Members of the Probation Board for Northern Ireland.Probation officers and persons appointed to assist them.Probation officers and persons appointed to assist them.A person appointed for the purposes of Article 7(6) of the Treatment of Offenders (Northern...A person appointed for the purposes of Article 7(6) of the Treatment of Offenders (Northern...Police officers and any other person employed in any capacity by virtue of which he...Police officers and any other person employed in any capacity by virtue of which he...Members and staff of the Policing Board.Members and staff of the Policing Board.Members of the National Criminal Intelligence Service, members of the Service Authority for the National...The Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland and persons employed by him. .The Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland and persons employed by him. .Persons in charge of, or employed in, a forensic science laboratory.Persons in charge of, or employed in, a forensic science laboratory.Prisoner custody officers within the meaning of section 122(1) of the Criminal Justice and Public...Prisoner custody officers within the meaning of section 122(1) of the Criminal Justice and Public...Members and employees of the Criminal Cases Review Commission.Members and employees of the Criminal Cases Review Commission.Persons who at any time within the past ten years have been persons falling within...Persons who at any time within the past ten years have been persons falling within...The ForcesPersons serving on full pay as members of any of the naval, military or air...Persons serving on full pay as members of any of the naval, military or air...Members of the Royal Irish Regiment.Members of the Royal Irish Regiment.Other personsPersons suffering from mental disorder within the meaning of the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order...Persons suffering from mental disorder within the meaning of the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order...Persons unable to understand the English language.Persons unable to understand the English language.SCHEDULE 3PERSONS EXCUSABLE FROM JURY SERVICE AS OF RIGHTParliament Peers and peeresses entitled to receive writs of summons...ParliamentPeers and peeresses entitled to receive writs of summons to...Members of the House of Commons. Northern Ireland AssemblyMembers of the Northern Ireland Assembly. Officers and servants of the Northern Ireland Assembly. Scottish Parliament and Scottish ExecutiveEuropean ParliamentRepresentatives to the European Parliament. Public officialsThe Assembly Ombudsman for Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland...Persons in the Northern Ireland Civil Service receiving a salary...The Chief Electoral Officer and persons appointed to assist him....The Comptroller and Auditor General for Northern Ireland. The Auditor General for Scotland The Secretary and any Director of the Northern Ireland Audit...Officers employed in any capacity by the Commissioners of Customs...Officers in charge of a head office in Northern Ireland...Inspectors of schools. Inspectors appointed under section 123 of the Mines Act (Northern...Clergy, etc.A person in Holy Orders and a regular minister of...Vowed members of any religious order living in a monastery,...Practising members of a religious society or order the tenets...ProfessionsProfessors and members of the teaching staff of a university...Masters of vessels, duly licensed pilots and lighthouse keepers. The following persons, if actually practising their profession and registered...Persons aged between 65 and 70 yearsPersons aged between 65 and 70 years. SCHEDULE 4CORONERS JURIESPART IMODIFICATIONS OF PROVISIONS OF THIS ORDER1Any reference to a court includes a reference to a coroner or, as the context...2Any reference to a judge (with or without qualifying words) includes a reference to a...3Any reference to a jury includes a reference to a coroner's jury.4In Article 5(4) and (5) “the Divisional Jurors List” includes a part of that list.5Articles 10(7) and 11(3) shall apply to rules under section 36(1) of the Coroners Act...6In Article 24 “trial” includes inquest.PART IIAMENDMENTS OF CORONERS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 19591In section 18 (summoning of jurors)— (a) in subsection (1), for the words from “district...2In Section 31(2) (summoning of another jury where jury unable to agree), for the words...3In section 32(1) (power to arrange for removal of body to district of another coroner),...Schedule 5—Repeals1996 No. 1141 (N.I. 6)The Juries (Northern Ireland) Order 199624th April 1996 F1Annotations:Amendments (Textual)F1Order: functions transferred from Lord Chancellor to Department of Justice (12.4.2010) by Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), arts. 1(2), 15(1), Sch. 17 para. 45 (with arts. 15(6), 28-31); S.I. 2010/977, art. 1(2)
Order: functions transferred from Lord Chancellor to Department of Justice (12.4.2010) by Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), arts. 1(2), 15(1), Sch. 17 para. 45 (with arts. 15(6), 28-31); S.I. 2010/977, art. 1(2)