Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) Where a pool
precept is delivered to a jury pool supervisor, he shall select by ballot from
the box referred to in section 32F(2) the number of jurors specified in the
pool precept.
(2) At the time and
court specified in the pool precept for the attendance of the jurors, the jury
pool supervisor, or an officer on his behalf, shall return the pool precept
and annex to it a list of the names of the persons and their identification
numbers selected by the jury pool supervisor in pursuance of the pool precept.
(3) The jury pool
supervisor shall also furnish with a pool precept furnished under subsection
(2) the cards on which are the identification numbers of the persons selected
in pursuance of the pool precept.
(4) The jury pool
supervisor, or an officer on his or her behalf, shall also direct the persons
selected in pursuance of the pool precept to attend at the court, and at the
time, specified in the precept.
(5) If a person
selected in pursuance of a pool precept is excused under Part VC Division 2
and the court so directs, the jury pool supervisor shall select a replacement
person in accordance with subsection (1), include the person’s name and
identification number on the list referred to in subsection (2) and furnish a
card on which is the person’s identification number to the court.
(6) A person selected
in pursuance of a pool precept who is not sworn as a member of the jury for
which the precept was issued or who served on that jury shall, unless
discharged from attending at the jury pool, return to the jury assembly room
and the proper officer shall return the card relating to every such person to
the jury pool supervisor.
(7) The procedures set
out in subsections (1), (2), (3) and (5) may, to the extent that they can be
performed by computer instead of by manual performance, be performed by
computer.
[Section 32H inserted: No. 6 of 1981 s. 20;
amended: No. 34 of 1997 s. 6; No. 25 of 2003 s. 12; No. 13 of 2011 s. 28 and
41.]