2003 No. 474

JURIES

The Juries (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (Amendment) Regulations 2003

Made

To be laid before Parliament

Coming into operation

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by Articles 4(10)(a) and 30(1) of the Juries (Northern Ireland) Order 19961 hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement1

These Regulations may be cited as the Juries (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (Amendment) Regulations 2003 and shall come into operation on 1st December 2003.

Amendment of Article 4(1) of the Juries (Northern Ireland) Order 19962

In Article 4(1) of the Juries (Northern Ireland) Order 19961 for the words “1st March” there shall be substituted the words “15th December”.

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

Lord FilkinParliamentary Under Secretary of StateDepartment for Constitutional Affairs

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations amend the Juries (Northern Ireland) Order 1996.

Regulation 2 amends Article 4(1) of the 1996 Order to provide that within the period of 14 days immediately preceeding 15th December each year the Chief Electoral Officer shall arraange for the selection of a sufficient number of jurors from the electoral register to enable the empanelling of such juries as may be required for that year.