Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) Except for the
purpose of carrying the provisions of this Act into effect, or in answer to
any questions which he is lawfully compellable to answer, a police officer or
sheriff’s officer who, having been entrusted with the serving of a
summons to a juror, communicates or makes known, whether directly or
indirectly, to any person any information or matter relating to jurors which
has come to his knowledge in carrying out his duties in relation to the
service of summonses to jurors commits an offence.
Penalty: $60 000 or imprisonment for 3 years, or
both.
(2) If a summoning
officer, or any of his assistants, or any officer or justice of the peace
taking part in, or present at the choosing of a jury panel or a jury pool,
including any person concerned in the operation of or having access to a
computer used for the purpose, reveals the names of persons on the panel or
the jury pool, or any of them to any person, except for the purpose of
carrying this Act into effect, or in answer to a question which he is lawfully
compellable to answer, he commits an offence.
Penalty: $60 000 or imprisonment for 3 years, or
both.
[Section 34 amended: No. 113 of 1965 s. 8(1); No.
44 of 1973 s. 20; No. 6 of 1981 s. 23; No. 25 of 2003 s. 13.]
[ 34A. Deleted: No. 13 of 2011 s. 32.]