Jury Act 1977 No 18
Current version for 6 July 2009 to date (accessed 26 November 2009 at 03:25)
Schedule 1

Schedule 1 Persons disqualified from serving as jurors

(Section 6 (a))

1   A person who at any time within the last 10 years in New South Wales or elsewhere has served any part of a sentence of imprisonment (not being imprisonment merely for failure to pay a fine).

2   A person who at any time within the last 3 years in New South Wales or elsewhere has been found guilty of an offence and detained in a detention centre or other institution for juvenile offenders (not being detention merely for failure to pay a fine).

3   A person who is currently bound by an order made in New South Wales or elsewhere pursuant to a criminal charge or conviction, not including an order for compensation, but including the following:

(a)  a parole order, a community service order, an apprehended violence order and an order disqualifying the person from driving a motor vehicle,
(b)  an order committing the person to prison for failure to pay a fine,
(c)  a recognizance to be of good behaviour or to keep the peace, a remand in custody pending trial or sentence and a release on bail pending trial or sentence.

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