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Power to apprehend offenders.
[24 & 25 Vict. c. 99 s. 31.]
* Principals in second degree and accessories. [ib. s. 35.]
+ Second or subsequent offence. [ib. s. 87.]
§ No. 7 of 1865. COINAGE OFFENCES.
(b) to arrest every person, being in such building, vessel, or place, who appears to have such coin, instrument, tool, engine, or machine in his custody or possession or under his control, and to bring every such person before a Magistrate to be dealt with according to law.
(2) All such false and counterfeit coin, and all instruments, tools, and engines adapted and intended for the making or counterfeiting of coin, and all such machines as aforesaid shall, after they have been so seized, be carried before a Magistrate, who shall have power, whether any person is charged with or convicted of any offence or not, to order the forfeiture of such coin, instruments, tools, engines, and machines as aforesaid and the delivery of the same either to the Treasurer or to any person authorised by him in writing to receive the same.
26. It shall be lawful for any person whomsoever to apprehend any person who may be found committing any indictable offence against this Ordinance, and to convey or deliver him to some officer of police, in order to his being conveyed as soon as reasonably may be before a Magistrate to be dealt with according to law.
[s. 27, rep. No. 31 of 1911.]
28. (1) In the case of any felony punishable under this Ordinance, every principal in the second degree, and every accessory before the fact, shall be punishable in the same manner as the principal in the first degree is by this Ordinance punishable.
(2) Every accessory after the fact to any felony punishable under this Ordinance shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 2 years.
29. Where any person having been convicted of any offence against this Ordinance, is afterwards indicted for any offence against this Ordinance committed subsequent to such conviction, and on his trial for such subsequent offence gives evidence of his good character, it shall be lawful for the Attorney General, in answer thereto, to give evidence of the conviction of such person for the previous offence, before any verdict is returned, and the jury shall inquire concerning such previous conviction at the same time that they inquire concerning such subsequent offence.
[ss. 30, 31, rep. No. 30 of 1911.]
* As amended by No. 50 of 1911 and No. 51 of 1911.
As amended by No. 30 of 1911.
§ As amended by No. 50 of 1911.