This Act may be cited as the Women Jurors Act, 1942, and shall be read together with and form part of the Juries Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

Any woman between the ages of twenty-five years and sixty years who possesses the qualifications for service as a juror required by the principal Act in the case of a man, and is not exempted or disqualified by that Act, and who notifies the Sheriff in writing that she desires to serve as a juror, shall be qualified and liable to serve on juries in the same manner in all respects as if she were a man.

The Sheriff shall transmit to the Superintendent of Police of every police district within or partly within a jury district the names and addresses of all women who have notified him that they desire to serve as jurors, and who are resident in the police district; and, if the Superintendent is satisfied that they are qualified to serve, their names may be added to the lists of persons qualified and liable to serve as jurors prepared under the principal Act.