Section 172: Exemption of jurors.

(1) Nothing herein contained shall prevent the Court from exempting any person from serving as a juror at any session or any trial for reasonable cause, a certificate bearing the signature of a Medical Practitioner setting out that any person required to attend as a juror is unable from the state of his health to do so, may, on the court being satisfied of the signature to such certificate, be received as prima facie evidence of reasonable cause. (2) A medical Practitioner, shall, on any juror producing his summons to serve, at any public hospital between the hours of eight and ten in the forenoon, and complaining of ill-health and inability to attend the session, grant him gratuitously such certificate, should he be found unfit. Jurors resident more than five miles from the place where the session is being held shall be excused by the Court from serving on the ground of ill-health upon the testimony of two jurors. Jurors at Coroner’s