1210 [ 10 or 1890.) MAGISTRATES .
depositions,
&c.
all exhibits and any statements shall as soon as practicable be
( 11 & 12 v. forwarded from tbe Magistrates office to the Crown Solicitor
c. 42, s. 27. ] for the use of the Attorney General and at any time before the
first day of the next Criminal Sessions of the Court at which
any accused committed to prison or admitted to bail is to be
tried , the accused or his counsel inay require and shall be
entitled to have of and from the officer or person having the
custody of the depositions copies thereof together with copies of
any such statement as aforesaid or of any questions and answers
put and taken in pursuance of section 93 of this ordinance, on
which the accused shall have been committed or bailed, on pay
ment of fifteen cents for each folio of 72 words.
PART V.
INDICTABLE OFFENCES TRIABLE SUMMARILY.
Part V. not
to affect Orili .
79. Nothing in this part of this ordinance shall affect the
nance No. 19 powers conferred upon Magistrates by The Protection of Women
of 1889 . and Girls Ordinance, 1889, or any later ordinance substituted
[ Repealed by therefor.
No. 11 of
1890.)
Indictable
offences when
80. Whenever any person is accused before a Magistrate of
to be dealt any indictable offence except the offences specified in the 4th
with schedule hereto, such Magistrate instead of committing the
summarily.
( No. 16 of accused for trial before the Court, may deal with the case and
1875, s. 5.) convict the accused summarily (LXXXII.) and upon conviction
may sentence the accused 10 be imprisoned for any term not
exceeding twelve months with or without hard labour or to pay
a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars.
Suchi Magistrate may also direct that the accused be kept in
solitary confinement for any portion of his term of imprisonment
not exceeding fourteen days at any one time and not exceeding
one month in the whole.
Such Magistrate may nevertheless if he think fit commit any
such accused for trial before the Court.
Provided always, that nothing in this section contained shall
affect the provisions of section 83.
Procedure as 81. Where an indictable offence is triable summarily :
to indictable
offences
triable ( 1. ) The procedure shall, until the Magistrate or Magis
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summarily. trates assume the power to deal with such offence
[ 12 & 43 V. summarily, be the same in all respects as if the
c. 49, s. 27. ]
ofl'ence were to be dealt with throughout as an
indictable offence, but when and so soon as the
Magistrate or Magistrates assume the power to deal
with such offence summarily, the procedure shall