Cap. 9 Art. 606Monthly drawing of ballots.

(1) Every month, the registrar shall open the boxes and draw ten ballots from the box containing the names of the foremen and forty ballots from the box containing the names of the common jurors:

Provided that the Minister responsible for justice may, by means of an Order in the Gazette, establish different methods of selection based on a computerised mechanism.

(2) The ballots drawn shall be kept by the registrar and the boxes shall be again closed and sealed.

(3) If, before the end of the year, in each of the boxes there shall not remain a number of ballots corresponding to one-sixth part of the registered jurors, the registrar shall replace in the boxes the ballots drawn during the year, bearing the names of the jurors who did not serve during that year.

(4) In the drawing of the ballots, the names of those who have died or are under any of the disqualifications or disabilities referred to in article 603(2), (3) and (4) or are exempt under article 604, shall not be taken into account and shall be considered as if they had not been drawn. The ballots referring to such persons shall be taken away from the boxes.

(5) The registrar shall cause the list of names so drawn to be published in the Gazette.

(6) Whenever two or more judges are appointed to sit separately in the court, or whenever the registrar is for any other reason so authorised by the court, the registrar may draw and publish two or more separate lists of names of persons who are to serve as jurors, each list being drawn and published in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this article, and all the provisions of the law shall apply to each and every one of such lists separately.

(7) Whenever in the opinion of the court the number of foremen or of common jurors, or of both, to be drawn in any month or for the purpose of any particular trial (including a trial that has been adjourned for any of the reasons referred to in article 613) should be greater than the number prescribed in sub-article (1) or in article 618, the court may order such number of ballots to be drawn from the boxes containing the names of the foremen or of the common jurors, or of both, as it may deem appropriate.