JURY EXEMPTION ACT 1965 - SECT 4 Certain persons not liable to serve as jurors

JURY EXEMPTION ACT 1965 - SECT 4

  (1)   A person, or a person included within a class of persons, referred to in the Schedule to this Act is not liable, and shall not be summoned, to serve as a juror in a Federal court, a court of a State or a court of a Territory.

  (2)   The Governor - General may make regulations for or in relation to:

  (a)   exempting a Commonwealth employee, or a person included within a class of Commonwealth employees, specified in the regulations from liability to serve as a juror:

  (i)   in Federal courts;

  (ii)   in Federal courts exercising jurisdiction in a specified State or Territory; or

  (iii)   in the courts of a specified Territory; and

  (b)   exempting a Commonwealth employee, or a person included within a class of Commonwealth employees, specified in the regulations from liability to serve as a juror in the courts of the States or in the courts of a specified State.

  (3)   A Commonwealth employee shall not be summoned to serve as a juror in a court in which, by reason of the regulations, he or she is exempt from serving as a juror.

  (4)   In this section, Commonwealth employee means:

  (a)   a person employed under an Act; and

  (b)   a member, officer or employee of a body established by or under an Act.