Western Australian Current Acts

JURIES ACT 1957 - SECT 34B

34B .         Summoning officer to give identification number and explain certain matters to persons answering summons

        (1)         Before calling the roll of persons summoned by a general jury precept the summoning officer shall give each person who appears in response to a summons his or her identification number on a card.

        (2)         The summoning officer shall call the roll of persons who have appeared in answer to the summons by calling their identification numbers.

        (3)         Immediately after calling the roll of persons summoned by a general jury precept the summoning officer shall explain or cause to be explained to the persons who have appeared in answer to the summons their obligation to disclose to him or to the court the matters in Schedule 2.

        [Section 34B inserted: No. 59 of 1984 s. 22; amended: No. 25 of 2003 s. 14; No. 13 of 2011 s. 33.]

        [Heading inserted: No. 13 of 2011 s. 34.]