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Contempt.
22.
Summary punishment of person guilty of perjury.
Charges under Froclamations to be preferred.
25.
(1) If any person benaves in an insulting maner or uses any thre.tening or insulting expression to or concerning any court or is otherwise guilty of any contempt before any court, the court may Summarily sentence the offender to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two montus or to a fine not exceeding one hundrea uollars.
(2) In every such case the court shall record the
Iacts constituting the offence, the statement, ii any, made by the oiïender, and the finding and sentence.
(3) In every case dealt with under this section the
court may, in its discretion, discharge the ofender or remit the punishment or any part thereof on the offender making an apology to the satisfaction of the court.
If it appears to any court that any witness mas wilfully given raise testimony, the court may sumarily sentence such witness, as for a contempt of the court, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two months or to a file not exceeding one munured dollars: proviued always tilt the court small in every Sucn case before passing Sentence clearly inform the witness of the statement` mich appears to une court to constitute the false testimony and shall give the witness all Opportunity of showing cause way sentence should not be passed.
24. Any person who appears to have committed an oflence or
to have attempted to commit an olience against a Proclamation shall, if the case is proceeaed wiun, be charged with and trieu for sucn ofience or attempted ofïence notwithstanding that the same facts aisclose that an oflence has also been committed against une laws in force in the Colony: provided always that the foregoing requirement shall be without prejudice to any further, or alternative charge or the joinder of any other charge which may be preferred against the same person for an offence against the laws in force in the Colony, but so that no person shall be convicted twice for the same ofience.
Aavocates and Prosecutors.
25.
(1) No person unless authorised by the Legal
Aaviser to practice as an Advocate shall have the right or audience in any court. The Legal Adviser may revoke any such authority for reasons which appear to him sufficient.
(2) Every Court may in its discretion authorise
any person to assist an accused person in nis aefence ana, in the default of the authority required by the preceding sub-section, may in the interests of justice grant a right of audience to any fit and proper person for the purposes of a particular trial.
(3) No person except a police officer, an officer of the Armed Forces or a person injured small, without the sanction of the court, be entitled to prosecute in any case,