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COCOS (KEELING) ISLANDS ACT 1955 - SECT 15AE Offences in relation to jurors

COCOS (KEELING) ISLANDS ACT 1955 - SECT 15AE

Offences in relation to jurors

  (1)   In this section:

"juror" includes a person whose name is on a jury panel.

  (2)   A person who is served with a summons to attend as a juror in a trial in an indictment court held wholly or partly in a State shall not:

  (a)   fail to attend in accordance with the summons; or

  (b)   having so attended, withdraw from the presence of the court, without the permission of the Sheriff, before being discharged or excused by a judge of the court or the Sheriff.

Penalty:   Imprisonment for 1 month or 2 penalty units .

  (2A)   Subsection   ( 2) does not apply if the person has a reasonable excuse.

Note:   A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in subsection   ( 2A) (see subsection   13.3(3) of the Criminal Code ).

  (3)   A person shall not personate a person who is a juror with the intention of sitting on a jury.

Penalty:   Imprisonment for 6 months or 10 penalty units .

  (4)   A person shall not:

  (a)   engage in conduct that results in the corruption of a juror;

  (b)   make or promise a payment to a juror, or confer or promise to confer any other benefit on a juror in relation to the person's service as a juror, other than a payment of the ordinary remuneration of the juror's employment; or

  (c)   being a juror, accept such a payment or benefit.

Penalty:   Imprisonment for 5 years.

  (5)   In this section:

"engage in conduct" means:

  (a)   do an act; or

  (b)   omit to perform an act.