Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00819:section:41
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00819
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 41
Character Range: 300356–301714

41  Juries in civil proceedings
 (1) Subject to this section and to any other law of the Commonwealth, the laws in force in a State or Territory relating to:
 (a) the qualification of jurors;
 (b) the preparation of jury panels;
 (c) the summoning, attendance and empanelling of juries;
 (d) the number of jurors;
 (e) the right of challenge;
 (f) the discharge of juries;
 (g) the disagreement of jurors;
 (h) the remuneration of jurors; and
 (i) other matters concerning jurors after they have been summoned, appointed, sworn or affirmed;
that apply for the purposes of the trial of civil proceedings in the Supreme Court of that State or Territory extend and shall be applied in civil proceedings in which a trial is had with a jury in the Court in that State or Territory, and for the purposes of such a trial the lists of jurors made for the purposes of the Supreme Court of the State or Territory shall be deemed to have been made as well for the purposes of the Court.
 (2) The precept for a jury referred to in subsection (1) shall be issued by the Chief Executive Officer or such other officer of the Court as the Court or a Judge directs, and the Sheriff shall prepare the jury panels and summon jurors.
 (3) The amounts required for the remuneration of jurors in accordance with this section are payable out of moneys provided by the Parliament.