DRAWING OF JURORS BY MEANS OF A COMPUTERISED MECHANISM REGULATIONS

DRAWING OF JURORS BY MEANS

OF A COMPUTERISED MECHANISM

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 9.16

DRAWING OF JURORS BY MEANS OF A

COMPUTERISED MECHANISM REGULATIONS

1st March, 2011 *

LEGAL NOTICE 31 of 2011.

The title of these regulations is the Drawing of Jurors by

means of a Computerised Mechanism Regulations.

For the purposes of these regulations the expression

"computerised program" shall mean the Jurors’ Program.

(1) There shall be a computerised program, containing the

list of jurors drawn according to the provisions of the Criminal

Code to serve as jurors before the Criminal Court, which

computerised program will be under the responsibility of and

utilised by the Registrar of Criminal Courts and Tribunals or by such

other persons he may choose to delegate.

(2) The computerised program shall be accessible only to those

persons identified by the Registrar from time to time.

(1) The data of this system shall be kept in the

computerised program of the Court and any adjustment or change

in such data shall be registered in the program itself.

(2) The computerised program utilises as a method of selection

the random drawing of jurors.

(3) The list of jurors, once issued by the Board of Jurors in

terms of article 606 of the Criminal Code, shall be inserted in the

computerised program kept for that purpose by the Registrar, from

which list there shall be selected and drawn such jurors as the Court

may order to be drawn.

(1) The names of the persons selected as jurors by the

computerised program according to article 605(11) of the Criminal

Code shall be divided into two categories: (a) jurors and (b) special

jurors.

(2) These lists shall be kept in the computerised program

according to article 605(12) of the Criminal Code under the

responsibility of the Registrar in a safe manner.

The lists of jurors drawn by the computerised program

shall be published in the Gazette in the same mode and manner

determined by article 606(5) of the Criminal Code.

In terms of article 611 of the Criminal Code, the Registrar

shall read aloud the lists of jurors from which he shall draw at

random such jurors with the computerised program.

*see regulation 1(2) as originally promulgated.