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irocedure pending
confirmation.
ower to call for record.
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(3) In cases coming to them respectively for review under this section, the General Officer Commanding Military Forces,
Malaya, and the Deputy Chief Civil Affairs Officer may exercise any of the powers conferred by section 12 of this roclamation upon a confirming authority, notwithstand- ing any action which may have been taken previously upon the same caso by a confirring authority; and, in addition to such powers, the Deputy Chief Civil ffairs Officer shall have power in any case so coming to him as aforesaid to uphold the conviction and enhance the sentence.
14. In any case in which the sentence imposed by the Court requires to be confirmed, the offender shall be kept in conf incrent pending the order of the confirming authority except in any case in which an off onder has been sentenced to a fine when the Court may, in its discretion, release the offender on payment of the fine or on such terms as to security for payment thereof as to the Court may seen reasonable.
15. (1) The Chicf Legal Officer or the Legal Officer may call for and examine the record of any proceedings before any Court for the purpose of satisfying himself as to the correctness, legality or propriety of any judgment, sentence or oder recorded or passed and as to the regularity of any proccedings of such Court.
(2)fter the receipt of the record of the proceedings the Chief Legal Officer or Legal Officer, as the case may be, if he is not satisfied as to the correctness, legality or propriety of such judgment, sentence or order, shall transmit such record to the proper reviewing authority who may in relation thereto exercise any of the powers conferred by section 12 of this roclamation upon a confirming authority.
1ART V
MISCELLANEOUS
lower to transfer
cases.
Contempt❤
16. (1) In any trial before a Court in which it appears to the resident or residing Officer, as the case may be, that an order under this section will tend to the general convenience of the accused or witnesses or that such order is expedient in the interests of justice, the proceedings may be stayed and the resident or residing Officer, as the case may be, may order the case to be transferred to some other Court of like jursidiction and shall record such order on the proceedings.
(2) In any trial before a District Court in which it appears to the residing Officer at any stage of the proceedings that for any reason the case is one which in his opinion ought to be tried by the Superior Court, he may stay the proceedings and order the case to be transferrod to the Superior Court and shall record such order on the proceedings. Thereupon the Superior Court shall commence the trial de novo.
17. (1) The Court may cause to be detained in custody any person who, in the view or presence of the Court, intentionally offers any insult or causes any interruption to any member of the Court sitting in any stage of a judicial proceeding or who misbehaves himself in Court and at any time before rising on the same day the Court may take cognizance of the offence and punish the offender with rigorous or simple imprisonment for a
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