Section 24 Exemption from jury service.

F1(1)

No person registered in the register of veterinary surgeons or the supplementary veterinary register shall if actually practising veterinary surgery be liable to serve on any jury in Great Britain.

X1(F22)

For section 10(1) of the M1 Juries Act (Northern Ireland) 1953 there shall be substituted the following subsection:—

“(1)
No person registered in the register of veterinary surgeons or the supplementary veterinary register shall, if actually practising veterinary surgery, be liable to serve on any jury, and accordingly there shall be added at the end of Schedule 3 to the Jury Laws Amendment Act (Northern Ireland) 1926 (exemption from serving on juries) the words “ persons registered in the register of veterinary surgeons or the supplementary veterinary register, if actually practising."”

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: S. 24(1) repealed (E.W.) by Criminal Justice Act 1972 (c. 71), Sch. 6 Pt. I; and (S.) by Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1980 (c. 55, SIF 72:2), s. 28(2), Sch. 3
F2: S. 24(2) repealed (N.I.) by S.I. 1974/2143 (N.I. 6), Sch. 5

Marginal citations

M1: 1953 c. 19.

Editorial notes

X1: The text of ss. 24(2), 28(1) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991