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Juries Act 1981

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36B: Purpose and application of 2012 amendments on protection of particulars of jury list information

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"Keeping Jurors' Information Safe and Private"

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The purpose of some changes made to the Juries Act in 2012 is to help keep jurors safe and private by protecting their information. You need to know that these changes also make sure people involved in court cases have the information they need to choose jurors. The Juries Act applies to jury panels chosen before these changes were made, as if the changes did not happen. When you read about a "defendant" in section 14AB(5) of the Act, you should understand it to mean "accused" until certain other changes come into effect, which are explained in the Juries Amendment Act 2011 and its Schedule.

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36BPurpose and application of 2012 amendments on protection of particulars of jury list information

  1. The purpose of Part 2 of the Juries (Jury Service and Protection of Particulars of Jury List Information) Amendment Act 2012 is to amend this Act so that it—

  2. helps to maintain jurors' privacy, safety, and security by protecting particulars of jury list information; but also
    1. ensures that parties to proceedings have available to them processes, and enough information, to enable them to exercise effectually their rights under this Act to challenge persons selected as jurors.

      1. This Act applies to panels compiled before the commencement of that Part as if that Part had not been enacted.

      2. Defendant in section 14AB(5) (as inserted by that Part) must, until the commencement of section 7 and the Schedule of the Juries Amendment Act 2011, be read as accused.

      Notes
      • Section 36B: inserted, on , by section 20 of the Juries (Jury Service and Protection of Particulars of Jury List Information) Amendment Act 2012 (2012 No 75).