Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975

100 No exemptions by sex or marriage from liability to serve as juror.S

(1)A person shall not be exempted by sex or marriage from the liability to serve as a juror but any judge may, in his discretion, on an application made by or on behalf of the prosecution or the accused or at his own instance, make an order that the jury shall be composed of men only or of women only, as the case may require, or may, on an application made by a woman to be exempted from service on a jury in respect of any case by reason of the nature of the evidence to be given or of the issues to be tried, grant such exemption.

(2)Rules of court may be made by Act of Adjournal—

(a)prescribing the manner in which jurors are to be summoned and to be selected from the panel;

(b)exempting from attendance as jurors any women who are for medical reasons unfit to attend;

(c)as to the procedure to be adopted on any application under this section relating to service on juries;

(d)requiring or authorising an application under this section, or any order theron, to be made in interlocutory proceedings.

[F1The provisions of Schedule 3 to this Act shall have effect as if they were rules of court made under this subsection.]

(3)Any enactment relating to juries which is in force at the commencement of this Act shall have effect subject to the provisions of this section.

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