Cap. 9 Art. 604Exemptions.

(1) The following persons are exempt from serving as jurors:

Members of the House of Representatives, Mayors and Executive Secretaries of Local Councils, judges, honorary consuls, clergymen, members of the Armed Forces of Malta, persons holding the office of Head of a Government Department and their deputies, the magistrates, the Registrar of Courts, officers of the

Executive Police, professors and full-time teachers of the

University, headmasters and teachers of the secondary, primary and technical schools, District Medical Officers, health inspectors, the

Principal Probation Officer and Probation Officers and any other persons of such a description as the Minister responsible for justice may, from time to time, prescribe by Order in the Gazette.

(2) Moreover the court may, on an application to that effect, exempt from serving as a juror, any apothecary of a village and any physician, surgeon or obstetrician actually practising his profession, and, in general, any person who has completed the sixtieth year of his age, unless, in some particular case, the court deems otherwise for the ends of justice.

(3) A person who has the care of a family or of a person who suffers from any physical or mental infirmity shall also be exempt from serving as a juror.