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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-scotland-act-1907/schedule-First/paragraph-36B.4",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Edw7/7/51",
  "legislation_title": "Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1907",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-scotland-act-1907",
  "path": "schedule/First/paragraph/36B.4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "36B.4",
  "heading": "Ineligibility for, and excusal from, jury service",
  "text": "(1) A person summoned to serve on a jury may, as soon as possible after receipt of Form G13A, apply to the sheriff clerk to be released from the citation by completing and returning that Form.\n(2) The sheriff clerk may, if satisfied that—\n(a) there are good and sufficient grounds for excusal; or\n(b) the person is ineligible for jury service,\ngrant the application.\n(3) The sheriff to preside at the jury trial may, at any time before the jury is empanelled, excuse any person summoned to attend as a juror from attendance if satisfied that there are good and sufficient grounds for doing so.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 Ch. 36B inserted (22.9.2015) by Act of Sederunt (Rules of the Court of Session 1994 and Sheriff Court Rules Amendment) (No. 2) (Personal Injury and Remits) 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/227), paras. 1(2), 8(15)"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/7/51/schedule/First/paragraph/36B.4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:21:51.257811+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."
}