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Juries Act 1974
c. 2313

Sch. 1

Governors, chaplains, medical officers and other officers of penal establishments; members of boards of visitors for penal establishments.

(“Penal establishment” for this purpose means any prison, remand centre, detention centre or borstal institution).

The warden or a member of the staff of a probation home, probation hostel or bail hostel (within the meaning of the 1973 c. 62.Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973).

Probation officers and persons appointed to assist them.

Members of the Parole Board; members of local review committees established under the 1967 c. 80.Criminal Justice Act 1967.

A member of any police force (including a person on central service under section 43 of the 1964 c. 48.Police Act 1964); special constables; a member of any constabulary maintained under statute; a person employed in any capacity by virtue of which he has the powers and privileges of a constable.

A member of a police authority within the meaning of the Police Act 1964; a member of any body (corporate or other) with responsibility for appointing members of a constabulary maintained under statute.

Inspectors of Constabulary appointed by Her Majesty; assistant inspectors of constabulary appointed by the Secretary of State.

Civilians employed for police purposes by a police authority; members of the metropolitan civil staffs within the meaning of section 15 of the 1967 c. 28.Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1967 (persons employed under the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, Inner London justices’ clerks, etc.).

A person in charge of, or employed in, any forensic science laboratory.

A person who at any time within the last ten years has been a person falling within any description specified above in this Group.

Group C
The clergy, etc.

A man in holy orders.

A regular minister of any religious denomination.

A vowed member of any religious order living in a monastery, convent or other religious community.

Group D
The mentally ill

(Expressions used in this Group are to be construed in accordance with the 1959 c. 72.Mental Health Act 1959.)

A person who suffers or has suffered from mental illness, subnormality, severe subnormality or psychopathic disorder and on account of that condition either—

(a) is resident in a hospital or other similar institution; or
(b) regularly attends for treatment by a medical practitioner.