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SUPREME COURT.
[A.D. 1873.
No. 3.]
amined as a witness upon oath or declaration, or, if a Quaker, upon affirmation, has committed wilful and corrupt perjury, or that any person, in swearing, declaring, or affirming in any affidavit, declaration, or affirmation required to be made before the Court, has been guilty of the like offence, then, in each and every such case, it shall and may be lawful for the Court to direct a prosecution for perjury to be forthwith instituted against such person so falsely swearing, declaring, or affirming as aforesaid, in order that he may be punished according to law; or where such perjury is committed by any person examined as a witness in open Court, it shall be lawful for the Court, instead of directing such prosecution to be instituted as aforesaid, either to commit such witness, as for a contempt of the Court, to prison for any term not exceeding three months, with or without hard labour, or to fine such witness in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars: Provided that the powers hereinbefore given shall be in full force and operation notwithstanding any irregularity or want of form in the administration of the oath, declaration, or affirmation.
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of person perjury before guilty of the Court.
ne No. 2 of 1889.
See also Ordinance
make general
(EG24-4-03)
32.—(1.) It shall be lawful for the Chief Justice to make general rules
Power to
Vide Order
and orders for regulating the times of holding the Court, the forms to be
rules and
3-4-1903
used and the fees to be payable therein, and also the fees of counsel and
orders.
the costs of solicitor, and from time to time to alter, amend, or revoke such
rules and orders, as occasion may require: Provided always that no such
rules or orders, nor any alteration, amendment, or revocation thereof,
shall be deemed binding until the same have been revised and approved
of by the Legislative Council and have been published in The
Gazette.
(2.) All such rules and orders and all such alterations, amendments, and
revocations thereof, when so revised, approved, and published as aforesaid,
shall have the same force and effect for all purposes as if the same had
been made by Ordinance, and shall in like manner come into immediate
operation, subject to disallowance by Her Majesty.
ment of fees,
33. (1.). All fees receivable in the Court shall be payable in stamps,
Mode of pay-
subject to the provisions of any Ordinance for the time being in force
relating to stamps.
(2.) The fees heretofore payable in respect of process issued by the
Court shall continue to be payable in respect of such process until a new
scale of fees for the Court generally is prepared and adopted.
etc.
See Ordinance No. 16 of 1901.
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