Jury Act 1995

For each jury service period, the sheriff must prepare and keep up to date a list of the persons summoned for jury service in a jury district and not later excused from jury service (the list of persons summoned for jury service).

The list of persons must state the name, address and occupation, as mentioned in section 37, of each person on the list.

If asked by a party to a civil or criminal trial that is to take place in the jury district in the jury service period, or a lawyer or other person representing a party, the sheriff must—

give the party, lawyer or other person a copy of the list of persons summoned for jury service; and

identify or provide a means of identifying each person who has been instructed by the sheriff to attend on the day the jury for the relevant trial is to be selected.

The request may be made no earlier than 4.00pm on the business day immediately before the day on which the jury for the trial is to be selected.

A person who has received a copy of the list must return the copy to the sheriff as soon as practicable after the jury for the trial is selected, unless the person has disposed of it in the way directed by a judge under subsection (6).Maximum penalty—10 penalty units or 2 months imprisonment.

A judge may direct a person who has received a copy of the list to dispose of it as the judge directs.

The sheriff must destroy copies of the list returned to the sheriff.