Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2021C00068:section:12b
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2021C00068
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 12B
Character Range: 49369–50846

12B   Offences in relation to jurors
 (1) A person who is served with a summons to attend as a juror in a trial in the Supreme Court held wholly or partly in a State shall not:
 (a) fail to attend in accordance with the summons; or
 (b) having so attended, withdraw from the presence of the Court, without the permission of the Sheriff, before being discharged or excused by a judge of the Court or the Sheriff.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 1 month or 2 penalty units.
 (1A) Subsection (1) does not apply if the person has a reasonable excuse.
Note: A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matter in subsection (1A) (see subsection 13.3(3) of the Criminal Code).
 (2) A person shall not personate a person who is a juror with the intention of sitting on a jury.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 6 months or 10 penalty units.
 (3) A person shall not:
 (a) engage in conduct that results in the corruption of a juror;
 (b) make or promise a payment to a juror, or confer or promise to confer any other benefit on a juror in relation to the person's service as a juror, other than a payment of the ordinary remuneration of the juror's employment; or
 (c) being a juror, accept such a payment or benefit.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 5 years.
 (4) In this section:
engage in conduct means:
 (a) do an act; or
 (b) omit to perform an act.
juror includes a person whose name is on a jury panel.

Part IVA—Conferral of Territory Jurisdiction on Western Australian courts etc.