The number of peremptory challenges allowed to each accused, and to the prosecutor, as respects the jurors in any trial shall be reduced from five to three; and accordingly for subsection (1) of section 130 of the 1975 Act (challenges and objections to jurors) there shall be substituted the following subsection :
“(1)In any trial each accused may challenge three jurors, as may the prosecutor, without giving any reason.”.