334 which has been embodied.
5 those parts of the Ordinance which are not to be found in Local Ordinances or in express terms in Imperial Acts are principally drawn from an Ordinance passed in 1891 by the legislature of British Guiana and the Indictable Offences (Procedure) Ordinance, 1891.
This Ordinance was only passed into law after the Bill on which it was founded had undergone considerable consideration at the hands of the Judges, Magistrates and others concerned in its future administration, and it was approved of by the Secretary of State without amendment.
Besides incorporating the express provisions of existing English statute law on the subject of criminal procedure, this Ordinance contained various enactments taken from the Criminal Code Indictable Offences Bill which passed its second reading in the House of Commons in the sessions of 1878 and 1879, and was referred to and settled in a Commission composed of Lord Blackburn, Justice Lush, and Justice Barry.