Schedules

Schedule 6 E+WOffences

Part 1 E+WOffences relating to jurors

[F1 Serving while disqualified, failure to attend etc] E+W

Textual Amendments

F1 Cross-heading inserted (13.4.2015) by Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 (c. 2), s. 95(1), Sch. 13 para. 4; S.I. 2015/778, art. 3, Sch. 1 para. 79

1 (1) It is an offence for a person to serve on a jury at an inquest if the person— E+W

(a) is disqualified from jury service (by reason of being a person listed in Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the Juries Act 1974 (c. 23)), and

(b) knows that he or she is disqualified from jury service.

(2) A person guilty of an offence under this paragraph is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 6 para. 1 in force at 25.7.2013 by S.I. 2013/1869, art. 2(l)