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TypeBare Act JurisdictionMaharashtra Government

The Coroners Act, 1871 Section 31

LIST OF JURORS, FINE ON JUROR NEGLECTING TO ATTEND

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The Coroners Act, 1871 Section 31 is part of The Coroners Act, 1871 - LIST OF JURORS, FINE ON JUROR NEGLECTING TO ATTEND. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

1) The Coroner shall prepare and from time to time revise a list of sufficient number of persons of good character and adequate education, liable to serve as jurors in his Court.

(2) All male persons between the ages of twenty-one and sixty whose names are not in the Common Jury list of the High Court, shall, subject to the exemption mentioned in section 320 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, be liable to serve as jurors in the Coroner's Court.

(3) Whenever any person has been duly summoned to appear as a juror by a Coroner, and fails or neglects to attend at the time and place specified in the summons, the Coroner may cause him to be openly called in his Court three times to appear and serve as a juror, and upon the non-appearance of such person, and proof that such summon has been served upon him or left at his usual place of abode may impose such fine upon the defaulter, not exceeding fifty rupees, as to the Coroner seems fit:

Provided that the Coroner may, in his discretion, remit any fine so imposed

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What does The Coroners Act, 1871 Section 31 provide?

Section Section 31 of the The Coroners Act, 1871 (LIST OF JURORS, FINE ON JUROR NEGLECTING TO ATTEND) is reproduced on this page as part of the The Coroners Act, 1871. Lawyers and researchers use it to read the statutory wording before checking how courts have applied this section in reported judgments.

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