{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/juries-act-1974/section-9B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/juries-act-1974/section-9B.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1974/23",
  "legislation_title": "Juries Act 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/juries-act-1974",
  "path": "section/9B",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9B",
  "heading": "Discharge of summonses to disabled persons only if incapable of acting effectively as a juror.",
  "text": "(1) 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 physical disability there is doubt as to his capacity to act effectively as a juror, the person may be brought before the judge.\n(2) The judge shall determine whether or not the person should act as a juror; but he shall affirm the summons unless he is of the opinion that the person will not, on account of his disability, be capable of acting effectively as a juror, in which case he shall discharge the summons.\n(3) In this section “the judge” means\n(a) any judge of the High Court or any Circuit judge or Recorder , or\n(b) subject to subsection (4), any qualifying judge advocate (within the meaning of the Senior Courts Act 1981).\n(4) Subsection (3)(b) applies only where the case relates to a summons to attend for jury service in the Crown Court.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 9B added (3.2.1995) by 1994 c. 33, s. 41; S.I. 1995/127, art. 2(1), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 9B(3) renumbered as s. 9B(3)(a) (temp. until the amendment by 2003 c. 39, Sch. 4 para. 3 comes into force) (2.4.2012) by Armed Forces Act 2011 (c. 18), s. 32(3), Sch. 2 para. 10(1)-(3); S.I. 2012/669, art. 4(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 9B(3)(b) and word inserted (temp. until the amendment by 2003 c. 39, Sch. 4 para. 3 comes into force) (2.4.2012) by Armed Forces Act 2011 (c. 18), s. 32(3), Sch. 2 para. 10(1)(2)(4); S.I. 2012/669, art. 4(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 9B(4) inserted (temp. until the amendment by 2003 c. 39, Sch. 4 para. 3 comes into force) (2.4.2012) by Armed Forces Act 2011 (c. 18), s. 32(3), Sch. 2 para. 10(1)(2)(4); S.I. 2012/669, art. 4(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "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/9B",
    "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."
}