Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) Where a jury is
required at any trial to which a jury pool relates, the presiding judge or a
person appointed by him for that purpose may issue a pool precept directed to
the jury pool supervisor for that jury pool requiring him to allocate jurors
from the jury pool for that trial.
(2) A pool precept
shall —
(a) be
in the prescribed form; and
(b)
specify the time and the court at which the attendance of the jurors is
required; and
(c)
subject to subsection (3), specify the number of jurors required to be
allocated from the jury pool.
(3) Unless the judge
or other person issuing a pool precept otherwise orders in particular
circumstances, the number of jurors to be specified in a pool precept is 20
plus the total number of peremptory challenges available to the accused person
or persons and to the prosecutor in the trial.
[Section 32G inserted: No. 6 of 1981 s. 20;
amended: No. 13 of 2011 s. 6.]