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Jurors (Enrolment of Women) (Scotland) Act 1920
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1920 c. 53 |
| Year | 1920 |
Jurors (Enrolment of Women) (Scotland) Act, 1920.
(10 & 11 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 53.
An Act to provide for the qualification of and manner of enrolling Women as Jurors in Scotland.
[16th August 1920]
Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Enactments relating to qualifications, &c. of jurors to apply to women.
(1) The enactments relating to the qualification of jurors and the manner of making up any roll or list of persons who are qualified and liable to serve as jurors in Scotland shall apply to women in like manner as they apply to men: provided always that the names and designations of men and women shall be entered in the general and the special jury books and in the Sheriff Court jury books in separate lists, and that any provision in any enactment relating to the lists or the number of jurors to be entered in any such book shall be construed as referring to such separate lists.
(2) Notwithstanding anything in any enactment, new lists of jurors shall be prepared and come into use in every county within six months after the passing of this Act, and new lists shall be from time to time prepared according to the existing law and practice as amended and applied by this Act.
2 Power to High Court of Justiciary and Court of Session to make regulations.
2. Without prejudice to the powers conferred by section one of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act, 1919, the High Court of Justiciary by Act of Adjournal and the Court of Session by Act of Sederunt may make any regulations necessary to carry this Act into effect as regards criminal and civil jury trials respectively, and may by such regulations adapt the provisions of any enactment so as to make them conform with this Act.
3 Repeal.
3. The enactment specified in the schedule to this Act shall be repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that schedule.
4 Short title.
4. This Act may be cited as theJurors (Enrolment of Women) (Scotland) Act, 1920.
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