Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Subject to this section and the regulations, the laws in force in a host jurisdiction relating to each of the following:
(a) the qualification of jurors;
(b) the preparation of jury lists and 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;
(i) other matters concerning jurors (other than matters dealt with under section 60E) after they have been summoned, appointed or sworn;
that apply for the purposes of the trial of a criminal matter in the Supreme Court of that jurisdiction sitting at a place in that jurisdiction, extend and are to be applied, with such changes as are necessary, for the purposes of the trial of a criminal matter in the Supreme Court of the Territory when sitting at that place.
(2) For the purposes of a trial in the Supreme Court held wholly or partly at a place in a host jurisdiction, the jury list that would be used for the purposes of a criminal trial in the Supreme Court of that jurisdiction sitting in the same place is to be used as well for the purposes of the trial in the Supreme Court of the Territory.
(3) The precept for a jury is to be issued by the Registrar, or such other person holding an office in relation to the Supreme Court as the Court directs, and the Sheriff or such other person as the Court directs must prepare the jury panels and summon jurors.
(4) The person who has custody of the jury list referred to in subsection ( 2) in the host jurisdiction where the Supreme Court is holding a trial must:
(a) give a copy of that list to the person directed by the Court to prepare a jury panel; and
(b) indicate on that copy the names of the persons who, to that person's knowledge, would not, if summoned at the time the copy is given, be liable to serve as jurors under the law in force in that jurisdiction.
(5) The Commonwealth must pay any reasonable fee demanded for a copy of a list referred to in paragraph ( 4)(a).
(6) Any remuneration required to be paid to a person who serves, or is summoned to serve, on a jury in a trial in the Supreme Court held wholly or partly in a host jurisdiction must be paid by the Commonwealth.
(7) Where a law applied by this Act for the purposes of a trial in the Supreme Court requires an act or thing to be done by a person specified in that law, the Court may, if it is necessary to do so for the purpose of the effective application of the law, order that a person who holds a specified office in relation to the Court do that act or thing, and the law is taken to apply to that person accordingly.
(8) The regulations may provide that the provisions of a law referred to in subsection ( 1) that are specified in the regulations have effect with any modifications specified in the regulations.
(9) In this section, jury list means the roll, list, or book on or in which the names of persons liable to serve as jurors appear.