Jury Act 1977

The amendments made to this Act by the Jury Amendment (Verdicts) Act 2006 apply to criminal proceedings only if the jury is empanelled after the commencement of those amendments.

Despite subclause (1), those amendments do not apply in criminal proceedings where the jury is empanelled after the commencement of those amendments (current offence proceedings) if—

in earlier criminal proceedings against the accused, in relation to an offence or conduct that occurred on the same occasion as the occasion to which the current offence proceedings relate—

the jury was discharged because the jurors could not reach a verdict, or

a decision in those proceedings was set aside on appeal and a retrial ordered, or

the trial was aborted, and

the jury was empanelled in those earlier proceedings before the commencement of those amendments.