Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) A summoning
officer may instead of manual performance carry out by the use of a computer
—
(a) in
respect of a criminal trial held at a place other than Perth, the procedures
for and in relation to the choosing of a jury for a criminal trial referred to
in sections 26(2) to (6), 27 and 28; and
(b) the
procedures for and in relation to the choosing of a jury for a civil trial
referred to in section 29(2A), (2B), (2D), (2F), (2G), (2H) and (3).
(2) Where a summoning
officer exercises the power under subsection (1) in relation to the procedures
referred to in —
(a)
section 26(2) or (3) or 29(2A) to (2H), the choosing of a jury shall be made
at random from the names in the jurors’ book for the jury district
concerned; and
(b)
section 26(2) or (3), neither the attendance of a person specified in
section 26(2) as a witness nor the reading aloud of names by the summoning
officer as referred to in section 26(2) shall be required; and
(c)
section 29(2A), those procedures shall not be carried out in the presence of
the parties or their solicitors but the summoning officer shall forthwith
supply a list of the names of the jurors chosen to each party.
[Section 29A inserted: No. 13 of 1988 s. 5;
amended: No. 12 of 2000 s. 6; No. 25 of 2003 s. 7; No. 19 of 2010 s. 51; No.
13 of 2011 s. 20.]