### Jury Ordinance 《陪審團條例》

4A. Supply of information
(1) The Registrar or the Commissioner may, by notice in writing, require any person specified in the notice who possesses that information, to supply him, in such manner and within such time as may be so specified, with—
(a) the name and the number of the identity card of any person who has obtained a grade of pass in an English language examination or a Chinese language examination or part of such an examination as may be so specified; (Replaced 72 of 1997 s. 4)
(b) such information as the Registrar or the Commissioner considers necessary to enable the Registrar or the Commissioner to determine whether any person has a sufficient knowledge of the language in which the proceedings are to be conducted to be able to understand the relevant proceedings. (Replaced 72 of 1997 s. 4)
(2) Notice under subsection (1) may be given to the person in question by—
(a) delivering it to him;
(b) leaving it at his last known address; or
(c) sending it by post to his last known postal address.
(3) Any person who—
(a) without reasonable excuse, fails to comply with a requirement under subsection (1); or
(b) in purported compliance with any such requirement, knowingly supplies any information which is false in a material particular,
shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine at level 2 and to imprisonment for 3 months. (Amended E.R. 2 of 2019)
(4) For the purposes of subsection (1)(a)—
(a) an English language examination means an examination of English language or an examination conducted in the English language; and
(b) a Chinese language examination means an examination of Chinese language or an examination conducted in the Chinese language. (Added 72 of 1997 s. 4)
(Added 64 of 1984 s. 3)

### Jury Ordinance 《陪審團條例》

6. Want of qualification to be ground of challenge but not of avoiding trial
If any person is summoned as a juror who is not qualified or liable to serve as a juror, or is exempt from service, such want of qualification or exemption shall be a good cause of challenge and the person so summoned shall be discharged on such challenge or on his own application, if the court is satisfied of the fact and so directs; but no such want of qualification or exemption, if not submitted to the court before such person is sworn, shall afterwards be accepted as a ground for impeaching any verdict given by the jury on which such person has served.
(Amended 50 of 1911; 51 of 1911; 62 of 1911 Schedule; 63 of 1911 Schedule; 13 of 1995 s. 4)

### Jury Ordinance 《陪審團條例》

7. Provisional list of jurors
(1) As soon as it appears to the Commissioner that any person is—
(a) qualified to serve as a juror under section 4; and
(b) not exempt from service as a juror under section 5,
he shall cause to be served on such person a notice in the form of Form 2 in the Schedule. (Replaced 28 of 1962 s. 4)
(2) If any person upon whom a notice has been served in accordance with subsection (1) considers that he—
(a) does not qualify to serve as a juror under section 4; or
(b) is exempt from service as a juror under section 5,
he shall within 14 days after service upon him of such notice, notify the Registrar in writing to that effect stating the grounds upon which he claims exemption. (Replaced 28 of 1962 s. 4. Amended 37 of 1988 s. 4)
(3) On or before 1 October in each alternate year after the year 1960, the Registrar shall compile a provisional list of jurors which shall consist of— (Amended 37 of 1988 s. 4; 13 of 1995 s. 5)
(a) the name of every person whose name appeared on the last preceding list of jurors other than the name of a person who the Registrar has reason to believe to have died or left Hong Kong permanently; and (Replaced 3 of 1971 s. 3. Amended 37 of 1988 ss. 4 & 13; 13 of 1995 s. 5)
(b) subject to the determination of the Registrar upon any claim for exemption notified in accordance with subsection (2), the names of those persons upon whom, on or before the last preceding 1 September, the Commissioner caused a notice to be served in accordance with subsection (1). (Amended 37 of 1988 s. 4)
(4) For the purpose of subsection (1), service of notice may be effected either by personal service or by posting the notice addressed to the person to be served at his last address as known to the Registrar. (Amended 37 of 1988 s. 4)
(Replaced 39 of 1960 s. 5)

### Jury Ordinance 《陪審團條例》

9. Settlement of lists of jurors
(1) On or before 1 October in each alternate year after the year 1960, the Registrar shall publish in the Gazette and in one English language daily newspaper and in one Chinese language daily newspaper, each circulating in Hong Kong, a notice stating that copies of the provisional list of jurors are available for inspection at his office and at other addresses specified in the notice upon such days and between such hours as shall be specified in the notice up to and including the next 14 October. (Replaced 37 of 1988 s. 5)
(2) At any time between such 1 October and such 14 October, any person may apply by notice in writing addressed to the Registrar requiring that his name, or the name of any other person, be added to or deleted from the list of jurors for cause duly assigned in such notice.
(3) On receipt of any application in accordance with subsection (2) relating to any person whose name appears on the list of jurors the Registrar shall in his discretion allow or disallow the application and finally settle such list accordingly.
(3A) In settling a list under this section the Registrar may, without any application under subsection (2) in that behalf, remove from the list the name of any person who he has reason to believe to have died or left Hong Kong permanently. (Replaced 3 of 1971 s. 4. Amended 37 of 1988 s. 13)
(4) (Repealed 13 of 1995 s. 7)(5) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section the Registrar may adopt the list of a previous year as the list of jurors of the current year. (Replaced 13 of 1995 s. 7)
(Added 39 of 1960 s. 5. Amended 13 of 1995 s. 7)

10. Publication and bringing into operation of lists of jurors
(1) Not later than 1 February in each alternate year after the year 1961, the Registrar shall publish in the Gazette a notice stating that copies of the list of jurors as finally settled by him may be inspected at his office and at other addresses specified in the notice upon such days and during such hours as shall be specified in the notice. (Replaced 37 of 1988 s. 6)
(2) The list of jurors shall be in force from 15 days after the date on which the notice referred to in subsection (1) is published in the Gazette until 15 days after the date on which such notice relating to the next succeeding list is so published.
(Replaced 39 of 1960 s. 6. Amended 13 of 1995 s. 8)