Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

JURIES ACT 1967 - SECT 8

    (1)     If the judge is satisfied that, because of illness or other sufficient cause, a juror should not continue to act as a juror, the judge may order that the juror be excused from further attendance during the trial and during any further period that the judge specifies in the order.

    (2)     Where, because of the death of a juror or of a juror being excused under subsection (1), the number of jurors is reduced to not less than 10, the trial shall, if the judge so orders and notwithstanding section 7, continue with the reduced number of jurors, and the verdict of those jurors shall be a sufficient verdict.

    (3)     If, at a criminal trial—

        (a)     the number of jurors is reduced to 11 or 10 and the judge does not make an order under subsection (2); or

        (b)     the number of jurors is reduced to less than 10;

the judge shall discharge the remaining jurors and shall adjourn the trial to a date fixed by the judge or to be fixed as the judge orders.