Magistrates.
(4) At any time before the first day of the criminal session of the court at which any accused committed for trial is to be tried the accused or his counsel may require from the magistrates' clerk copies of the depositions together with copies of any such statements or evidence as aforesaid, on payment of fifteen cents for each folio of seventy-two words.
[81
[CAP. 227
on charge of
offence
indictable against 15 & 16 c. 86, s. 33.
corporation.
87. (1) When a corporation is charged, whether alone Procedure or jointly with some other person, with an indictable offence, the magistrate may, if he be of the opinion that the evidence offered on the part of the prosecution is sufficient to put the accused corporation upon trial, order the documents specified in subsection (1) of section 86 which relate to the case to be transmitted to the Attorney General and such order shall be deemed to be a committal for trial.
(2) If the corporation appears before the magistrate by a representative appointed in writing by the corporation to represent it for the purpose of this section, any question or statement required by any enactment to be put or made to the accused may be put or made to such representative, and any such question may be answered on behalf of the corporation by such representative, but if the corporation does not so appear it shall not be necessary to put or make the questions or statements, and the magistrate may, notwithstanding, make an order under this section.
(3) Nothing in this section shall have the effect of taking away from a magistrate any power which he may possess of dealing with a charge summarily.
PART IV.
SUMMARY TRIAL OF INDICTABLE OFFENCES.
[82
Geo. 5,
offences
which may be dealt 30 of 1958 with by
special
88. Wherever any person is accused before a special Indictable magistrate of any indictable offence except an offence specified in the Schedule, the magistrate, instead of committing the accused for trial before the court, may deal with the case summarily, and on conviction may sentence the accused to imprisonment for six months or to a fine of one thousand dollars: Provided that nothing in this section shall affect the provisions of section 91.
[84(1)
279
summarily.