(1) The prosecutor and every accused person is entitled to any number of challenges on any of the following grounds—
(a) that a juror is disqualified as an alien under the law;
(b) that a juror has been convicted of an offence for which he or she was sentenced to death or to any term of imprisonment exceeding one year;
(c) that a juror cannot speak, read, and write English;
(d) that the name of a juror does not appear in the Juror's Book, but no misnomer or misdescription in the Jurors' Book shall be a ground of challenge, if it appears to the Court that the description given in the Juror's Book sufficiently designates the person referred to;
(e) that a juror is not neutral between the Crown and the accused or between the accused and the Crown; or
(f) that a juror was returned to serve as jury contrary to the provisions for the returning of jurors in rotation.
(2) No other ground of challenge than those stated in subsection (1) shall be allowed.
(3) If any such challenge is made, the Court may, in its discretion, require the party challenging to put his or her challenge in writing.
(4) The other party may deny that the ground of challenge is true, or may, in the case of subsection (1)(b), allege that the juror challenged has received a free pardon.