Bill 187 explained in plain English
Juries Amendment Act, 2014
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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The Juries Amendment Act, 2014, allows individuals aged 65 or older in Ontario to opt out of receiving jury service notices and being included on the jury roll.
Bill 187, the Juries Amendment Act, 2014, proposes changes to Ontario's Juries Act. The main change is to allow individuals who are 65 years or older to choose not to receive jury service notices and not to be included on the jury roll. To opt out, people aged 65 or older must send a letter to the Director of Assessment indicating their wish not to receive a notice, or indicate this preference on their jury service notice return. The bill also includes provisions for prescribing the information and format for this opt-out letter.
- Amends the Juries Act to create an exemption for individuals aged 65 or older from receiving jury service notices.
- Amends the Juries Act to allow individuals aged 65 or older to opt out of being included on the jury roll.
- Allows for regulations to be made regarding the information and method for sending an opt-out letter for jury service.
- States that the Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- Individuals in Ontario who are 65 years of age or older.
- The Director of Assessment.
- Sheriffs.
- Individuals aged 65 or older have the right to elect not to receive a jury service notice.
- Individuals aged 65 or older have the right to elect not to be entered into the jury roll.
- The Director of Assessment has a duty not to select persons aged 65 or older for jury notices if they have opted out.
- The sheriff has a duty to omit the names of persons aged 65 or older from the jury roll if they have indicated they do not wish to be included.
- The Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- Letters indicating a wish not to receive a jury service notice must be sent to the Director by September 1 of the year or in any previous year.
- The specific information required in the opt-out letter and the manner and form in which it must be sent are to be prescribed by regulations, which are not detailed in this bill.
- The bill does not specify the process for how the Director of Assessment or the sheriff will be informed of these opt-outs beyond the individual's action of sending a letter or indicating on a return.
Allows individuals aged 65 or older to elect not to receive jury service notices and not to be entered into the jury roll.
Source: Sections 1, 2, and 3 of Bill 187 amend Sections 6, 8, and 37 of the Juries Act.
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