Magistrates.
CHAPTER 227.
MAGISTRATES.
[CAP. 227
19 of 1935.
23 of 1933. 32 of 1935. 20 of 1937.
To consolidate and amend the law relating to the jurisdic-tion of magistrates and the procedure and practice before magistrates in relation to offences punishable on summary conviction and to indictable offences and for other purposes.
41 of 1932.
8 of 1936.
5 of 1938. 5 of 1946.
36 of 1947.
[1st January, 1933.]
24 of 1949.
48 of 1949.
9 of 1950.
22 of 1950.
24 of 1950.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Magistrates Ordinance.
Preliminary.
2. In this Ordinance-
"appellant" means the party appealing under Part VI from a decision of a magistrate;
"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;
"fine" includes any pecuniary penalty or pecuniary forfeiture or pecuniary compensation payable under a conviction or order;
"indictable offence" means any crime or offence for which a magistrate is authorized or empowered or required to commit the accused person to prison for trial before the court;
"indictment" includes an information in the court;
"magistrate" includes a permanent magistrate and special magistrate;
"magistrates' 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 magistrates' clerk;
"party" includes the Crown and also any person aggrieved within the meaning of section 103 or 111;
"prescribed" means prescribed or provided by any enactment which relates to any offences, penalties, fines, costs, sums of money, orders, proceedings or matters
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