Procedure
on charge of indictable offence
against
corporation.
1830
(4) At any time before the first day of the criminal session of the court at which any accused committed for trial is to be tried the accused or his counsel may require from the magis- trates' clerk copies of the depositions together with copies of any such statements or evidence as aforesaid, on payment of fifteen cents for each folio of seventy-two words.
82.—(1) When a corporation is charged, whether alone or jointly with some other person, with an indictable offence, the magistrate may, if he be of the opinion that the evidence offered on the part of the prosecution is sufficient to put the 15&16 Gen. 5, accused corporation upon trial, order the documents specified in section 81 (1) which relate to the case to be transmitted to the Crown Solicitor for the use of the Attorney General and such order shall be deemed to be a committal for trial.
c. 86, s. 33.
(2) If the corporation appears before the magistrate by a representative appointed in writing by the corporation to represent it for the purpose of this section, any question or statement required by any enactment to be put or made to the eccused may be put or made to such representative, and any such question may be answered on behalf of the corporation by such representative, but if the corporation does not so appear it shall not be necessary to put or make the questions or state- mments, and the magistrate may, notwithstanding, make an order under this section.
(3) Nothing in this section shall have the effect of taking away from a magistrate any power which he may possess of dealing with a charge summarily.
PART IV.
Saving as to Ordinances relating to women and girls.
(cf. No. 4 of 1897.)
SUMMARY TRIAL OF INDICTABLE OFFENCES.
83. Nothing in this Part shall affect the conferred
powers upon magistrates by any Ordinance relating to the protection of women and girls.
Indictable
offences
which may be dealt with sum- marily. Third Schedule.
First Schedule Form No. 82.
84.-(1) Whenever any person is accused before a magistrate of any indictable offence, except an offence specified in the Third Schedule, the magistrate, instead of committing the accused for trial before the court, may deal with the case and convict the accused summarily, and on conviction may sentence the accused to imprisonment for any term not ex- ceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars: Provided that nothing in this section shall affect any greater punishment specifically provided in any other Ordinance.
(2) The magistrate may nevertheless, if he thinks fit, com- mit any such accused for trial before the court.
(3) Nothing in this section shall affect the provisions of section 86.