MAGISTRATES.
No. 3 of 1890.
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6.-(1) The forms in the 1st schedule or forms to the like effect, Use of forms. with such variations or additions as circumstances may require,
shall be deemed good, valid, and sufficient in law.
(2) Reference to the forms in the said schedule is made in connexion with the subjects to which they respectively relate by the insertion in the margin of references to the said forms.
PART I.
CONSTITUTION OF MAGISTRATES.
7.-(1) There shall be either one or more Magistrates, who shall Police Magistrates. be Justices of the Peace by virtue of their office, and shall have and exercise all such powers and jurisdiction as were vested in Police Magistrates before the commencement of this Ordinance, except as altered or repealed by this or any other Ordinance; and whenever by any past Ordinance or statute in force in the Colony any proceeding, act, or thing is authorised to be taken or done by a Justice or Justices of the Peace, the same may be taken or done by one Magistrate.
(2) The Governor may appoint Magistrates as vacancies occur.
8. There shall be as heretofore a Marine Magistrate, who, without prejudice to any other jurisdiction, power, or authority possessed by him, shall have the power and authority of a Magistrate to hear and determine cases of assault and assault and battery where there is no intent to commit a felony; and the provisions of this Ordinance in relation to the procedure before a Magistrate in such cases shall apply mutatis mutandis to cases before the Marine Magistrate.
9.-(1) In every case where a Magistrate may issue a warrant for Powers of Justices of the Peace, etc. the apprehension of any person, it shall be lawful for a Justice of the Peace, on the application of a police officer and on oath being made before him, substantiating the matter of the information to his satisfaction, to issue such warrant in order that such person may be brought before a Magistrate to be dealt with according to law.
(2) It shall be lawful for the Governor as occasion may require to direct that any two Justices of the Peace, sitting together, shall have the powers and jurisdiction that a Magistrate has by this Ordinance, and thereupon all the provisions of this or any other Ordinance...
* As amended by No. 50 of 1911, No. 1 of 1912 and No. 2 of 1912.