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No. 3 of 1890.
MAGISTRATES.
[42 & 43 Vict. c. 49 s. 48.]
[ib. s. 49.]
Saving of special procedure.
Magistrate includes two Magistrates where two Magistrates sit together:
"Indictable offence" means any crime or offence for which a Magistrate is authorised or empowered to commit the accused person to prison for trial before the Court:
'Indictment" includes an information in the Court:
Civil debt" means any sum of money claimed to be due which is recoverable before a Magistrate on complaint and not on information:
"Counsel" means any barrister, advocate, or solicitor having the right of audience before any Court in the Colony:
"The Magistrate's clerk" includes (where there is more than one) either or any of such clerks or such other person as a Magistrate directs to do anything required by this Ordinance to be done by the Magistrate's clerk:
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'Prescribed" means prescribed or provided by any enactment which relates to any offences, penalties, fines, costs, sums of money, orders, proceedings, or matters to the punishment, recovery, making, or conduct of which this Ordinance expressly or impliedly applies or may be applied:
"Fine" includes any pecuniary penalty, or pecuniary forfeiture, or pecuniary compensation payable under a conviction or order:
"Sum adjudged to be paid by a conviction" and "sum adjudged to be paid by an order", respectively, include any costs adjudged to be paid by the conviction or order, as the case may be, of which the amount is ascertained by such conviction or order:
Appellant" means the party appealing under Part VI from a decision of a Magistrate:
"Party" includes the Crown and also any person aggrieved within the meaning of sections 98 and 103:
"Respondent" means the opposite party whose interest conflicts with the interest of any person appealing within the meaning of the said last-mentioned section:
Prison means the Gaol:
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[ss. 3, 4, rep. No. 30 of 1911.]
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5. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect any special procedure provided in any Ordinance not hereby repealed.