South Australian Current Regulations

JURIES (GENERAL) REGULATIONS 2013 - REG 5

5—Jury pools and jury panels

        (1)         A jury panel for a criminal trial commencing in a jury district in a particular month must be constituted from the jury pool for the district for that month as follows:

            (a)         for each day of the month on which trials are to commence (other than the day on which the jury pool is first required to attend) the sheriff must direct—

                  (i)         all of the jurors in the jury pool; or

                  (ii)         a number of the jurors in the jury pool selected in accordance with paragraph (b),

to attend for the purpose of rendering jury service;

            (b)         a selection of jurors from the jury pool for the purposes of paragraph (a)(ii) may be—

                  (i)         by ballot or by use of an approved computer program; or

                  (ii)         if having regard to the sittings of the courts and the number of jurors in the pool the sheriff has divided the jury pool into a number of sections by ballot or by use of an approved computer program—by the sheriff selecting one or more of the sections of the jury pool; or

                  (iii)         by some other means approved by the Chief Justice;

            (c)         if only one trial is to commence on a particular day in the month, the jury panel for the trial is constituted of—

                  (i)         the jurors selected by the sheriff by ballot or approved computer program from amongst those who attend on that day in obedience to the summons or directions of the sheriff; or

                  (ii)         if the sheriff considers it unnecessary to make such a selection—all the jurors who attend on that day in obedience to the summons or directions of the sheriff;

            (d)         if more than one trial is to commence on a particular day in the month, the sheriff must divide the jurors who attend on that day in obedience to the summons or directions of the sheriff into separate jury panels and appropriate each panel to a trial.

        (2)         If a juror who attends on a particular day in obedience to the summons or directions of the sheriff is not included in a jury for a trial, the sheriff may excuse the juror from further jury service on that day but the juror must next attend in obedience to the summons at a time and place to be directed by the sheriff.

        (3)         Subject to the Act and these regulations, on completion of jury service in a trial before the end of the month for which the juror has been summoned, the juror must next attend in obedience to the summons at a time and place to be directed by the sheriff.