INTERPRETATION.
No. 31 of 1911.
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tried as provided by the Magistrates Ordinance, 1932; and the expression "summary conviction" or "conviction before a magistrate", and any other expression having the like intent, means that the offence to which it relates was triable, and has been tried, and the offender convicted, as provided by the said Ordinance; and in both cases the procedure respecting the imposition of fines and forfeitures, imprisonment for default, and all other provisions respecting the jurisdiction of the magistrate, and the procedure of such trial, shall be held to be included; and where by any Ordinance an offence is made punishable by summary conviction, the magistrate or two magistrates, as the case may require, shall be deemed thereby to be invested with jurisdiction to try any person accused of such offence; and references in any enactment to two magistrates shall mean two magistrates sitting together and exercising jurisdiction as provided by section 87 of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1932.
(9) "Judge" means any judge of the Supreme Court; and where any civil jurisdiction is required to be exercised by a judge, such jurisdiction, if it is not otherwise expressed, shall be exercisable by a judge sitting in chambers.
52 & 53 Vict.
(10) "Rules of court" means, when used in relation to any court, rules made by the authority having for the time being power to make rules and orders regulating the practice and procedure of such court, together with the forms necessary thereto. The power of the said authority to make rules of court as above defined shall include a power to make rules of court, together with the forms necessary thereto, for the purpose of any future enactment directing or authorizing anything to be done by rules of court.
E.—General definitions.
(1) "Any Ordinance" or "any enactment" includes any Ordinance or any enactment, as the case may be, which is in force in the Colony at the time when the enactment in which the expression occurs is enforced or applied.
(2) "Bank of England" means the Governor and Company of the Bank of England.
52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 12 (18).