Below is a list of persons who are excusable from Jury Service as of right.

Parliament

• Peers and Peeresses entitled to receive writs of summons to attend the House of Lords.
• Members of the House of Commons.

Northern Ireland Assembly

• Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
• Officers and servants of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Scottish Parliament and Scottish Executive

• Members of the Scottish Parliament.
• Members of the Scottish Executive.
• Junior Scottish Ministers.

European Parliament

• Representatives to the European Parliament.
  

Public Officials

• The Assembly Ombudsman for Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Complaints.
• Persons in the Northern Ireland Civil Service receiving a salary on a scale the maximum of which is not lower than the maximum of the Grade 5 scale.
• The Chief Electoral Officer and persons appointed to assist him.
• The Comptroller and Auditor General for Northern Ireland.
• The Auditor General for Scotland.
• The Secretary and any Director of the Northern Ireland Audit Office.
• Officers employed in any capacity by the Commissioners of Customs and Excise, or Commissioners of Inland Revenue.
• Officers in charge of a head office in Northern Ireland of a department of the Government of the United Kingdom.
• Inspectors of schools.
• Inspectors appointed under section 123 of the Mines Act (Northern Ireland ) 1969.

Clergy, etc

• A person in Holy Orders and a regular minister of any religious denomination.
• Vowed members of any religious order living in a monastery, convent or other religious community.
• Practising members of a religious society or order the tenets or beliefs of which are incompatible with jury service.

Professions

• Professors and members of the teaching staff of a university or institution of further education and fulltime teachers in any school.
• Masters of vessels, duly licensed pilots and lighthouse keepers.
• The following persons, if actually practising their profession and registered (including provisionally or temporarily registered), enrolled or certified under the statutory provisions relating to that profession -
  • medical practitioners;
  • dentists;
  • nurses;
  • midwives;
  • veterinary surgeons and veterinary practitioners;
  • pharmaceutical chemists.

Persons aged between 65 and 70 years

• Persons aged between 65 and 70 years.