MAGISTRATES.
No. 3 of 1890.
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mediately succeeding the month in which he has committed the accused to prison for trial) inform or cause the accused to be informed thereof in the words or to the effect following:
'A.B. you stand committed to prison until the criminal session of the Supreme Court which will be holden next month there to take your trial.'
(2) If the magistrate commits the accused to prison for trial on any other day of the month except between the 10th and 18th days, both inclusive, of any month, or if it has been ordered that there shall be no criminal session of the court in the month immediately succeeding the month in which he has committed the accused to prison for trial he shall inform or cause the accused to be informed thereof in the words or to the effect following:
'A.B. you stand committed to prison until the next criminal session of the Supreme Court there to take your trial.'
Provided always that the court may of its own motion or on the application either of the Crown or of the accused order the accused to be tried on such date as the court may fix.
copy of 11 & 12 Vict. c. 42, s. 27.
78. When the depositions in any case sent for trial to the court have been completed, a copy thereof, including all exhibits and any statement, shall, as soon as practicable, be forwarded from the magistrate's office to the Registrar for the use of the court; and at any time before the first day of the criminal session of the court at which any accused committed to prison or admitted to bail is to be tried, the accused or his counsel may require and shall be entitled to have copies thereof, together with copies of any such statement as aforesaid, on which the accused has been committed or bailed, on payment of fifteen cents for each folio of seventy-two words. [cf. No. 9 of 1899, s. 11.]
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PART IV
SUMMARY TRIAL OF INDICTABLE OFFENCES.
Ordinances
79. Nothing in this Part shall affect the powers conferred upon magistrates by any Ordinance relating to the protection of women and girls. [cf. No. 4 of 1897.]
* As amended by Law Am. Ord., 1923.