MAGISTRATES.
No. 3 of 1890.
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perty belonging to or in the possession of partners, joint tenants, parceners, or tenants in common, it shall be sufficient to name one of such persons and to state the property to belong to the person so named and another or others, as the case may be; and whenever in any complaint or information or the proceedings thereon it is necessary to mention for any purpose whatsoever any partners, joint tenants, parceners, or tenants in common, it shall be sufficient to describe them in manner aforesaid.
(2) Whenever in any complaint or information or the proceedings thereon it is necessary to state the ownership of any public work or building maintained or repaired at the public expense or any materials or tools provided for the repair of public highways, roads, buildings, gates, bridges, lamps, boards, stones, posts, fences, or other things erected or provided for such highways, roads, buildings, gates, bridges, lamps, boards, stones, posts, and fences, or of any reservoirs, conduits, sewers, drains, or other public works or property of whatsoever description, it shall be sufficient to describe such property as the property of the Crown.
for order to pay money
20. In any case of a complaint upon which a Magistrate may make an order for payment of money or otherwise, it shall not be necessary that such complaint shall be in writing unless it is required to be so by the Ordinance or statute upon which such complaint is framed.
need not be
[11 & 12 Vict. c. 43 s. 8.]
*
tion. [ib. s. 11.]
21. In any case of an offence other than an indictable offence where no time is limited by any Ordinance or statute for making any complaint or laying any information in respect of such offence, such complaint shall be made or such information laid within 6 months from the time when the matter of such complaint or information respectively arose.
[ib. s. 1.]
22. No objection shall be taken or allowed to any complaint, information, or summons for any alleged defect therein in substance or in form, or for any variance between such complaint, information, or summons and the evidence adduced in support thereof, and the adjudicating Magistrate shall in all cases give judgment upon the substantial merits and facts of the case as proved before him, and convict the defendant of the offence of which he may appear to have been guilty; but if any such variance appears to
* As amended by No. 2 of 1912.