Jury Ordinance

(1)
After the jury have been sworn or charged with the person accused, they shall be kept in some convenient place in court apart by themselves (retirement of individual jurors for personal purposes only excepted, and then in charge of an officer of the court), until the judge has summed up the evidence and has left the case with the
jury:
Provided that if the court adjourns during the hearing of the case (either during the sitting or at the end of a day’s sitting) the judge may either allow the jury to disperse, or may direct that they be removed in charge of an officer of the court to some convenient place, there to take refreshment and rest, until the court reassembles, and such officer shall be sworn that he will suffer none save himself to speak to or to communicate with them without the leave of the judge.
(Amended
50 of 1911
;
51 of 1911
;
62 of 1911
Schedule
;
63 of 1911
Schedule
)
(2)
If, after the case has been left with the jury, the jury desire to withdraw for the purpose of considering their verdict, then they shall be kept by an officer of the court in some convenient place apart by themselves, but they shall be allowed reasonable refreshment, with power also to retire alone only for personal purposes, until they are agreed upon their verdict or are discharged therefrom by the court; and the officer shall be sworn that he will suffer none to have access to them nor speak to them himself, except to ask whether they are agreed upon their verdict or to communicate between them and the court.
(Amended
50 of 1911
;
62 of 1911
Schedule)