The Juries (Northern Ireland) Order 1996

Article 10(2).

SCHEDULE 3 PERSONS EXCUSABLE FROM JURY SERVICE AS OF RIGHT

Parliament

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

• Members of the House of Commons.

Northern Ireland Assembly

• Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

• Officers and servants of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

European Parliament

• Representatives to the European Parliament.

Public officials

• The Northern Ireland Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration and the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Complaints.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• Persons aged between 65 and 70 years.