This part of the law used to be about when a judge could decide to have a trial without a jury if someone tried to scare the jurors. However, this rule doesn’t exist anymore. It was removed from the law on 1 July 2013. The government made this change through another law called the Crimes Amendment Act (No 4) 2011.
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View the original legislation for this page at https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1986/0120/latest/link.aspx?id=DLM1782101.
361D: Judge may order trial without jury in certain cases that are likely to be long and complex, or
“ A judge can decide to have a trial without a jury if the case might take a long time and be hard to understand. ”
362: Challenging the array, or
“Asking for a new group of potential jurors if you think the current group isn't fair”
