Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts(1) If a jury precept is given to the sheriff, the sheriff shall choose from the names on the jury list as many persons as he or she considers necessary to ensure that the number of persons that the jury precept requires to attend to serve as jurors will be in attendance at the Supreme Court at the time specified in the precept.
(2) If it appears to the sheriff that—
(a) a person whose name has been so chosen is dead, is exempt from serving as a juror or has become a disqualified person; or
(b) there are reasonable grounds for believing that it is unlikely that a person whose name has been so chosen will be served with the jury summons;
the sheriff shall choose, in substitution for the name previously chosen, the name of another person whose name appears on the jury list.
(3) The choosing of names of persons under subsection (1) or (2) shall be by lot or by use of a computer programmed to make a random selection.
(4) The sheriff shall prepare, and give a police officer a copy of, a list of the names chosen under subsection (1) or (2).
(5) A police officer may make the inquiries that he or she considers appropriate in an endeavour to ascertain whether any person whose name is included on the list referred to in subsection (4) is a disqualified person and the officer shall report in writing the result of the inquiries to the sheriff.
(6) A person shall not, except in the exercise of a function under, or otherwise for, a law in force in the ACT, either directly or indirectly, make a record of, or divulge or communicate to any person, information obtained in the course of inquiries referred to in subsection (5).
(7) If it appears to the sheriff, after considering a report made under subsection (5), that a person whose name is included on the list referred to in subsection (4) is a disqualified person, the sheriff shall remove the name of the person from that list and shall remove the person's name from the jury list.
(8) If it appears to the sheriff, after considering a report made under subsection (5)—
(a) that a person whose name is included on the list referred to in subsection (4) is not a disqualified person but has been convicted of an offence punishable on summary conviction; and
(b) that, having regard to the nature and number of the offences committed by the person, when they were committed and any penalties imposed for them, the person would be unable to adequately exercise the functions of a juror;
the sheriff shall remove the name of the person from that list and shall, by written notice sent by post addressed to the person at his or her last-known place of residence, advise the person that his or her name has been removed and that he or she may object to the removal by written application to a judge.
(9) If a person makes an application referred to in a notice under subsection (8), the judge shall fix a date and time for the hearing of the application and shall cause the applicant and the sheriff to be notified accordingly.
(10) If the judge decides that an applicant's name should not have been removed from the list referred to in subsection (4), the sheriff shall put the applicant's name back on the list.
(12) An action or proceeding, civil or criminal, does not lie against a police officer personally for or in relation to any act done by the officer in good faith in connection with the making of a report under subsection (5).