Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts The Supreme Court or a
judge thereof may summarily inflict such fine as the court or judge deems fit
upon the sheriff or other summoning officer, or any jury officer, clerk,
police or other officer, who without lawful justification or excuse —
(a)
includes or omits from any jurors’ list or jurors’ book any name
or names which should or should not, as the case may be, appear therein, or
causes any misdescription in a jurors’ list or jurors’ book; or
(b)
causes any alteration, omission, insertion, or misdescription in a
jurors’ list, jurors’ book, jury summons, panel, card, or ticket;
or
(c)
subtracts, destroys, or permits any person to have access to, any
jurors’ list, jurors’ book, jury summons, panel, card or ticket;
or
(d)
directly or indirectly, takes or receives any money or reward, or any promise
of or contract for money or reward, for excusing, or under the pretence of
excusing, any person from being summoned to serve, or from serving as a juror;
or
(e)
fails to do or to permit the doing of any act, matter or thing in the manner
or at or within the time prescribed; or
(f)
wilfully records the appearance of any person summoned and returned to serve
as a juror, who did not really appear.
[Section 54 amended: No. 44 of 1973 s. 28.]