{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/juries-act-1974/section-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/juries-act-1974/section-10.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1974/23",
  "legislation_title": "Juries Act 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/juries-act-1974",
  "path": "section/10",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Discharge of summonses in case of doubt as to capacity to act effectively as a juror.",
  "text": "Where it appears to the appropriate officer, in the case of a person attending in pursuance of a summons under this Act, that on account of . . . insufficient understanding of English there is doubt as to his capacity to act effectively as a juror, the person may be brought before the judge, who shall determine whether or not he should act as a juror and, if not, shall discharge the summons; and for this purpose “the judge” means any judge of the High Court or any Circuit judge or Recorder.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 10 repealed (3.2.1995) by 1994 c. 33, s. 168(3), Sch. 11; S.I. 1995/127, art. 2(1), Sch. 1, Appendix C"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2003/39",
      "affecting_title": "Courts Act 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/23/section/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:44:59.863919+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}