Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) If an Assembly
district part or the whole of which forms or is comprised in a jury district
is altered or abolished pursuant to any law for the time being in operation;
the jury district, as constituted immediately prior to the alteration or
abolition of the Assembly district, shall nevertheless remain as so
constituted until varied by proclamation under this Act, and any jurors’
book in force immediately prior to the alteration or abolition of the Assembly
district shall continue to be the jurors’ book for the jury district
until a new jurors’ book is prepared under this Act.
(2) If a jury district
is altered or abolished by proclamation under section 12,
(a)
jurors for whom summonses have been issued before the day on which the
proclamation takes effect to attend for any sittings, shall on being served
attend in accordance with the summons; and
(b)
trials to be held at the sittings shall be held, or if commenced before that
day, shall be continued; and
(c)
jurors for those trials shall be chosen,
as if the proclamation
had not taken effect.
[Section 11 amended: No. 44 of 1973 s. 8; No. 1 of
2005 s. 9(2).]