Criminal Code (Cap. 9), article 610

610. (1) The jury shall be composed of a foreman and eight common jurors. Supplementary jurors. (2) Nevertheless, if the cause should appear to be of such nature as to require a long hearing, the court may, before the ballot of the jurors, order the drawing of not more than six other nam es, and the jurors whose names shall be drawn after the names of th e first eight common jurors have been drawn, shall be supplementa ry jurors, and shall attend at the trial of the cause. 384 CAP . 9.] CRIMINAL CODE (3) All the provisions of the law relating to the jury and to th e jurors forming the jury, shall apply to such supplementary juro rs, but such supplementary jurors shall not be present at nor take part in any deliberation, save in the case of death or any impedimen t of any of the other jurors. (4) The court shall decide as to the lawfulness of the impediment, and any substitution shall be made in the same orde r in which the names of the supplementary jurors shall have been drawn. Death or impediment of foreman of jury. (5) In the case of death or imp ediment of the foreman, his duties shall be discharged by one of the other jurors to be app ointed by the court. Formation of jury. Amended by: IV .1856.48; IX.1859.30; V .1868.38; X.1896.9,10; VIII.1909.56; L.N. 46 of 1965; LVIII.1974.68; XIV .1976.6; XVI.2006.20.