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(4) A letter under subsection (5) of section 18
may be addressed to the magistrate on behalf of a
corporation by a director or the secretary of the
corporation and that subsection shall apply in
relation to a letter purporting to be so addressed as
it applies to a letter purporting to be addressed by
an individual defendant."
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Amendment of section 82.
3. Section 82 of the principal Ordinance is amended by
adding, after subsection (3), the following new subsections
"S.I. 1968/ 1920 r.4(9) & (13).
(4) After subsection (3) has been complied with,
the magistrate shall then say to the accused
"I must warn you that if this court should
commit you for trial you may not be permitted at
that trial to give evidence of an alibi or to call
witnesses in support of an alibi unless you have
earlier given particulars of the alibi and of the
witnesses. You may give those particulars now to
this court or to the prosecutor not less than ten
days prior to the commencement of your trial.
or words to that effect and, if it appears to the
magistrate that the accused may not understand the
meaning of the term "alibi", he shall explain it to
him.
(5) Where the magistrate has given to the accused