Part VIII Amendments of Law Relating to Juries

119 Persons aged between 65 and 70 to be eligible as jurors.

(1)

In section 1 of the M1Juries Act 1974 (qualification for jury service) for “sixty-five there shall be substituted “seventy.

(2)

The following shall be inserted at the beginning of Part III of Schedule 1 to that Act (persons excusable from jury service as of right)—
“ General Persons more than sixty-five years of age.”