Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts(1) At the beginning of a criminal trial, the proper officer shall draw the jury cards out of a ballot box 1 at a time and call aloud the name and occupation shown on each card so drawn until 12 persons have entered the jury box.
(2) If all the jury cards are exhausted, by challenge or otherwise, before 12 persons have entered the jury box at a criminal trial, the judge may order the sheriff to appoint forthwith from persons in or in the vicinity of the Supreme Court who are liable to serve as jurors so many persons to attend to serve as jurors as will enable 12 persons to enter the jury box.
(3) The names of the persons so appointed shall be deemed to have been returned on the jury precept and to have been included in the jury panel and the sheriff shall give to the proper officer a jury card showing the name and occupation of each of those persons.
(4) The persons so appointed are subject to challenge in the same way as the persons whose names are included on the panel of jurors.
(5) The 12 persons in the jury box shall, on being sworn, be the jury for the criminal trial.
(6) A card bearing the name of a person, other than a person appointed under this section, who has been called but not sworn shall, on the jury being sworn, be returned to the ballot box.
(7) When the verdict of the jury has been given and recorded or the jury has been discharged, whichever first happens, the jury cards bearing the names of the jurors shall, unless the Supreme Court otherwise orders, be returned to the ballot box.