The Juries (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 No. 1141 (NI. 6)

SCHEDULES

Article 10(2).

SCHEDULE 3 N.I. PERSONS EXCUSABLE FROM JURY SERVICE AS OF RIGHT

Parliament N.I.

Peers and peeresses entitled to receive writs of summons to attend the House of Lords.

Members of the House of Commons.

Northern Ireland Assembly N.I.

Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Officers and servants of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

[F1 Scottish Parliament and Scottish Executive N.I.

F1 Words in Sch. 3 inserted (6.5.1999) by The Scotland Act 1998 (Consequential Modifications) (No.1) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1042), arts. 1(2)(a), 3, Sch. 1 para. 23(a)

• Members of the Scottish Parliament.

• Members of the Scottish Executive.

• Junior Scottish Ministers.]

European Parliament N.I.

Representatives to the European Parliament.

Public officials N.I.

The[F2 Assembly Ombudsman for Northern Ireland] and the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Complaints.

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Persons in the Northern Ireland Civil Service receiving a salary on a scale the maximum of which is not lower than the maximum of the Grade 5 scale.

The Chief Electoral Officer and persons appointed to assist him.

The Comptroller and Auditor General for Northern Ireland.

[F3 The Auditor General for Scotland]

F3 Words in Sch. 3 inserted (6.5.1999) by The Scotland Act 1998 (Consequential Modifications) (No.1) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1042), arts. 1(2)(a), 3, Sch. 1 para. 23(b)

The Secretary and any Director of the Northern Ireland Audit Office.

Officers employed in any capacity by the Commissioners of Customs and Excise, or Commissioners of Inland Revenue.

Officers in charge of a head office in Northern Ireland of a department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

Inspectors of schools.

Inspectors appointed under section 123 of the [1969 c. 6 (N.I.)] Mines Act (Northern Ireland) 1969.

Clergy, etc. N.I.

A person in Holy Orders and a regular minister of any religious denomination.

Vowed members of any religious order living in a monastery, convent or other religious community.

Practising members of a religious society or order the tenets or beliefs of which are incompatible with jury service.

Professions N.I.

Professors and members of the teaching staff of a university or institution of further education and full-time teachers in any school.

Masters of vessels, duly licensed pilots and lighthouse keepers.

The following persons, if actually practising their profession and registered (including provisionally or temporarily registered), enrolled or certified under the statutory provisions relating to that profession—

• medical practitioners;

• dentists;

• nurses;

• midwives;

• veterinary surgeons and veterinary practitioners;

• pharmaceutical chemists.

Persons aged between 65 and 70 years N.I.

Persons aged between 65 and 70 years.