Hong Kong Ordinances

CORONERS ORDINANCE - SECT 21

Panel for jury

PART V

JURORS

(1) Where the Registrar is notified by a coroner that an inquest is to be held
with a jury, the Registrar shall-

   (a)  select by ballot or by any other method of random selection, from the
        list of jurors, such number of names of jurors as the Registrar, after
        consultation with the coroner, thinks fit, to form a panel; and

   (b)  shall transmit the names of the jurors forming that panel to the
        coroner.

(2) The provisions of the Jury Ordinance ( Cap 3) shall, so far as they are
applicable, apply to the selection of the names of the jurors under subsection
(1).