Criminal Code (Cap. 9), article 604

604. (1) The following persons are exempt from serving as jurors: Members of the House of Representatives, Mayors and Executive Secretaries of Local Councils, judges, honorary consuls, clergymen, members of the Armed Forces of Malta, persons holding the office of Head of a Government Department and their deputies, the magistrates, the Re gistrar of Courts, officers of the Executive Police, professors an d full-time teachers of the University, headmasters and teachers of the secondary, primary and technical schools, District Medi cal Officers, health inspectors , the Principal Probation Officer and Probation Officers and any othe r persons of such a des cription as the Minister responsible for j ustice may, from time to time, prescribe by Order in the Gazette. (2) Moreover the court may, on an application to that effect, exempt from serving as a juror, a ny apothecary of a village and any physician, surgeon or obstetrician actually practising his profession, and, in general, any person who has completed the sixtieth year of his age, unless, in some particular case, the court deems otherwise for the ends of justice. (3) A person who has the care of a family or of a person who suffers from any physical or mental infirmity shall also be exe mpt from serving as a juror. Compilation of lists of jurors. Amended by: X.1858.5; X.1896.4,5,6,7; Order-in- Council of 1899, s. 8 (a), (b), (c); VIII.1909.55; XVI.1932.10; XXX.1934.20; XX.1936.5; XXXIII.1972.7; XLVI.1973.108; XXVII.1975.40; IV .1994.18; XXIV .1995.362; XVI.2006.18; XXIV .2014.66.