Jury Act 1977

The sheriff may require a person who claims or requests to be excluded or exempted from jury service, or applies for deferral of jury service, to provide evidence to the satisfaction of the sheriff to support the claim, request or application.

The sheriff may require any of the following information to be verified by statutory declaration—

information given in a questionnaire under section 13,

information provided to the sheriff for the purpose of determining whether or not a person is excluded or is to be exempted from jury service,

information provided to the sheriff for the purpose of determining whether or not a person’s jury service should be deferred.

Proceedings may be taken for an offence against this Act or the Oaths Act 1900 for providing false or misleading information to the sheriff that is required to be verified by statutory declaration. However, a person is not liable to be convicted of an offence under both Acts in relation to the provision of the same information.