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7Disqualification

  1. The following persons are not qualified to serve on any jury in any court on any occasion:

  2. any one who, at any time, has been sentenced to imprisonment for life or for a term of 3 years or more, or to preventive detention:
    1. any one who, at any time within the preceding 5 years, has been sentenced to imprisonment for a term of 3 months or more, or to home detention for a period that is, or is more than, 3 months.

      Compare
      • 1908 No 90 s 5
      • 1948 No 15 s 35
      • 1963 No 141 s 3
      Notes
      • Section 7(b): amended, on , by section 5 of the Juries (Jury Service and Protection of Particulars of Jury List Information) Amendment Act 2012 (2012 No 75).