SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 3PERSONS EXCUSABLE FROM JURY SERVICE AS OF RIGHT
Parliament
Peers and peeresses entitled to receive writs of summons to attend the House of Lords.
Members of the House of Commons.
Northern Ireland Assembly
Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Officers and servants of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
F6Scottish Parliament and Scottish Executive
Members of the Scottish Parliament.
Members of the Scottish Executive.
Junior Scottish Ministers.
European Parliament
Words in Sch. 3 substituted (1.7.2016) by Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 9), ss. 81(2), 106(2); S.R. 2016/247, art. 2(e)
F2Members of the European Parliament.
Public officials
Words in Sch. 3 substituted (1.4.2016) by Public Services Ombudsman Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 4), s. 64, Sch. 8 para. 4 (with s. 23, 50(3))
Words in Sch. 3 inserted (6.5.1999) by The Scotland Act 1998 (Consequential Modifications) (No.1) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1042), arts. 1(2)(a), 3, Sch. 1 para. 23(b)
Words in Sch. 3 substituted (1.7.2016) by Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 9), ss. 81(3), 106(2); S.R. 2016/247, art. 2(e)
F1The Northern Ireland Public Services Ombudsman.
Persons in the Northern Ireland Civil Service receiving a salary on a scale the maximum of which is not lower than the maximum of the Grade 5 scale.
The Chief Electoral Officer and persons appointed to assist him.
The Comptroller and Auditor General for Northern Ireland.
F5The Auditor General for Scotland
F3The Deputy Comptroller and Auditor General for Northern Ireland and any Assistant Auditor General for Northern Ireland.
Officers employed in any capacity by the Commissioners of Customs and Excise, or Commissioners of Inland Revenue.
Officers in charge of a head office in Northern Ireland of a department of the Government of the United Kingdom.
Inspectors of schools.
Inspectors appointed under section 123 of the [1969 c. 6 (N.I.)] Mines Act (Northern Ireland) 1969.
Clergy, etc.
A person in Holy Orders and a regular minister of any religious denomination.
Vowed members of any religious order living in a monastery, convent or other religious community.
Practising members of a religious society or order the tenets or beliefs of which are incompatible with jury service.
Professions
Professors and members of the teaching staff of a university or institution of further education and full-time teachers in any school.
Masters of vessels, duly licensed pilots and lighthouse keepers.
The following persons, if actually practising their profession and registered (including provisionally or temporarily registered), enrolled or certified under the statutory provisions relating to that profession—
medical practitioners;
dentists;
nurses;
midwives;
veterinary surgeons and veterinary practitioners;
pharmaceutical chemists.
F4Persons aged over 70 years
Words in Sch. 3 substituted (1.7.2016) by Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 9), ss. 81(4), 106(2); S.R. 2016/247, art. 2(e)
F4Persons aged over 70 years.
Words in Sch. 3 inserted (6.5.1999) by The Scotland Act 1998 (Consequential Modifications) (No.1) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1042), arts. 1(2)(a), 3, Sch. 1 para. 23(a)