New South Wales Consolidated Acts

JURY ACT 1977 - SECT 18A

18A Sheriff may excuse persons from jury service before being summoned

(1) The sheriff may, at any time before a person on a jury roll or supplementary jury roll is required by summons to attend for jury service, excuse the person from attending for jury service if the person shows good cause to be excused from attending for jury service because of any matter of special importance or any matter of special urgency.

(2) A person may be excused under this section for the whole or any part of the period during which the person may be summoned to attend for jury service because of the person being included on a jury roll.

(3) A person does not have good cause to be excused under this section on the ground that the person is entitled as of right to be exempted from serving as a juror if the person was entitled, but without reasonable excuse failed, to claim an exemption under section 13.

(4) The sheriff may require a person to verify a request to be excused under this section by statutory declaration.

(5) If the sheriff excuses a person from attending for jury service for any period under this section, the sheriff is to make a record of that fact.