Juries Act 1974

Group B E+W

Others concerned with administration of justice E+W

Barristers and solicitors, whether or not in actual practice as such.

[F1 Any person who is not a barrister or solicitor but who is an authorised advocate or authorised litigator (as defined by section 119(1) of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990) and—

(a)

any legal executive or person corresponding to a legal executive; or

(b)

any person corresponding to a barristers’ clerk or assistant clerk,

who is employed by such an authorised advocate or authorised litigator.]

Solicitors’ articled clerks.

Barristers’ clerks and their assistants.

Legal executives in the employment of solicitors.[F2 Public Notaries]

The Director of Public Prosecutions and members of his staff.

Officers employed under the Lord Chancellor and concerned wholly or mainly with the day-to-day administration of the legal system or any part of it.

Officers and staff of any court, if their work is wholly or mainly concerned with the day-to-day administration of the court.

Coroners, deputy coroners and assistant coroners.

[F3 Justices’ chief executives, justices’ clerks and justices’ clerks’ assistants.].

F4 . . .

Active Elder Brethren of the Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond.

A shorthandwriter in any court.

[F5 A court security officer within the meaning of Part IV of the Criminal Justice Act 1991.]

Governors, chaplains, medical officers and other officers of penal establishments; members of boards of visitors for penal establishments.

(“Penal establishment” for this purpose means any [F6 establishment regulated by the Prison Act 1952]).

[F7 Prisoner custody officers within the meaning of Part IV of the Criminal Justice Act 1991.]

[F8 Custody officers within the meaning of Part I of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994]

The warden or a member of the staff of a F9 . . ., probation hostel or bail hostel F10 . . ..

[F11 The warden or a member of the staff of approved premises (within the meaning of Part I of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000)

,]

Probation officers and persons appointed to assist them.

[F12 The chief officer and members of the staff of a local probation board established under section 4 of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000.

F12 Any person who performs the functions of a chief officer of a local probation board in accordance with a management order made under section 10 of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000.

F12 Any person who performs the functions of an officer of a local probation board under section 5(2) of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000

.]

Members of the Parole Board; members of local review committees established under the Criminal Justice Act M1 1967

[F13 Members and employees of the Criminal Cases Review Commission.]

[F14 Chairman and members of the Independent Police Complaints Commission and any member of its staff who is not otherwise ineligible.]

A member of any police force [F15 (including a person on relevant service within paragraph (b), (c) or (d) of section 97(1) of the Police Act 1996)]; special constables; a member of any constabulary maintained under statute; a person employed in any capacity by virtue of which he has the powers and privileges of a constable.

A member of a police authority within the meaning of [F15 the Police Act 1996]; a member of any body (corporate or other) with responsibility for appointing members of a constabulary maintained under statute.

Inspectors of Constabulary appointed by Her Majesty: assistant inspectors of constabulary appointed by the Secretary of State.

[F16 Civilians employed for police purposes under][F15 section 15 of the Police Act 1996] ; members of the metropolitan civil staffs within the meaning of section 15 of the Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act M2 1967 (persons employed under the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, Inner London justices’ clerks, etc.).

• [F17 A member of the National Criminal Intelligence Service or the National Crime Squad.

• A member of the Service Authority for the National Criminal Intelligence Service; a member of the Service Authority for the National Crime Squad; a person employed by the Service Authority for the National Criminal Intelligence Service under section 13 of the Police Act 1997 or by the Service Authority for the National Crime Squad under section 58 of that Act.]

A person in charge of, or employed in, any forensic science laboratory.

A person who at any time within the last ten years has been a person falling within any description specified above in this Group.

Textual Amendments

F1 Entry inserted (1.4.1991) by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 37), ss. 124(3), 125(3), Sch. 18 para. 5; S.I. 1991/608, art. 2, Sch.

F2 Entry inserted (1.4.1991) by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 37), ss. 124(3), 125(2), Sch. 17 para. 7; S.I. 1991/608, art. 2, Sch.

F3 Words in Sch. 1 Pt. I Group B substituted (1.4.1995) by 1994 c. 29, s. 91, Sch. 8 para 28; S.I. 1995/685, arts. 4, 7(2)(d)

F4 Words in Sch. 1 Pt. I Group B repealed (1.4.1995) by 1994 c. 29, s. 93, Sch 9 Pt. II; S.I. 1995/685, arts. 4 and 8(d)

F5 Words in Sch. 1 inserted (1.4.1992) by Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53, SIF 39:1), s. 100, Sch. 11 para. 18(2); S.I. 1992/333, art. 2(1), Sch. 1

F6 Words substituted by Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33, SIF 39:1), s. 123(6), Sch. 8 paras. 8, 16

F7 Words in Sch. 1 inserted (1.4.1992) by Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53, SIF 39:1), s. 100, Sch. 11 para. 18(3); S.I. 1992/333, art. 2(1), Sch. 1

F8 Entry inserted (3.2.1995) by 1994 c. 33, s. 168(2), Sch. 10 para. 29; S.I. 1995/127, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 Appendix B

F9 Words in Sch. 1 Pt. I group B repealed (5.2.1994) by 1993 c. 47, ss. 32, 33(2), Sch. 3 para. 5

F10 Words in entry in Sch. 1 Pt. I Group B repealed (1.4.2001) by 2000 c. 43, ss. 74, 75, Sch. 7 Pt. II para. 47(2)(a), Sch. 8; S.I. 2001/919, art. 2(f)(ii)(g)

F11 Entry in Sch. 1 Pt. I Group B inserted (1.4.2001) by 2000 c. 43, s. 74, Sch. 7 Pt. II para. 47(2)(b); S.I. 2001/919, art. 2(f)(ii)

F12 Entries in Sch. 1 Pt. I Group B inserted (1.4.2001) by 2000 c. 43, s. 74, Sch. 7 Pt. II para. 47(2)(c); S.I. 2001/919, art. 2(f)(ii)

F13 Entry in Sch. 1 Pt. I inserted (1.1.1997) by 1995 c. 35, s. 29(1), Sch. 2 para. 8; S.I. 1996/3149, art. 3

F14 Words in Sch. 1 Pt 1 inserted (1.4.2004) by Police Reform Act 2002 (c. 30), ss. 107, 108(2), Sch. 7 para. 3; S.I. 2004/913, art. 2(e)

F15 Words in Sch. 1 Pt. I Group B substituted (22.8.1995) by 1996 c. 16, ss. 103, 104, Sch.7 Pt. II para. 23

F16 Words substituted by Criminal Law Act 1977 (c. 45), Sch. 12

F17 Entry in Sch. 1 Pt. I Group B inserted (23.7.1997) by 1997 c. 50, s. 134(1), Sch. 9 para. 27; S.I. 1997/1377, art. 4 and S.I. 1998/354, art. 2(2)(bb)

Marginal Citations

M1 1967 c. 80.

M2 1967 c. 28.