Charge under Proclamation preferred.
False evidence
in judicial
proceeding.
•
Proclamations
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term not exceeding one month or with fino not exceeding one hundred dollars.
(2) In every such case the Court shall record the facts constituting the offence, the statement, if any, made by the offender, and the finding and sentenco..
(3) In the alternative the Court may direct that the offender be tried before a District Court, and for that purpose may order that he be taken into custody, or that he furnish such security for his appearance before a District Court as is reasonable.
(4) A Court dealing with an offender under this section may, in its discretion, discharge the offender or remit the punishment or any part thereof on his making an apology to the satisfaction of the Court.
18.
Any person who appears to have committed an offence against a Proclamation shall, if the case is proceeded with, be charged and tried under the provisions of the Proclamation notwithstanding that the same facts disclose that an offence has also been committed against a written law of the Śtraits Settlements or against the laws and usages of er. This shall be without prejudice to any separate, alternative or joint charge which may also be preferred against the same person for an offence against such written law or against the laws and usages of war, but so that no person shall be punished twice for the same offence.
19.
Any proceeding before the Superior Court or a District Court shall be deemed to be a judicial proce.ding within the meaning of section 193 of the Penal Code (Cap. 20) and section 11 of the Oaths Ordinance (Cap. 15).
20.
Unless otherwise stated by Proclamation an offence against a Proclamation shall be a seizable offence.
Offences
against
seizable.
Transfer of authorities.
21.
Procedure.
Existing Japanese Tribunals abolished
Where it is necessary to give effect to any written law of the Straits Settlements in which any term mentioned in the first column of the Second Schedule hereto appears, such written law shall be read as if the term correspondingly mentioned in the second column of the said Schedule were substituted therefor.
22.
The Chief Civil Affairs Officer my from time to time make, alter, amend or revoke Rules of Procedure which shall govern proceedings and inquiries in Courts.
23. (1) Every tribunal established in the Settlement of Singapore by, or under the authority of, the Japanese Military Authorities is hereby abolished.
(2) All proceedings pending in any such tribunal shall forthwith be stayed and any person accused before any such tribunal is hereby discharged of and from the charge ur charges preferred against him, such discharge not amounting to an acquittal.
(3) No sentence of death imposed by any such tribunal
shall be executed unless such sentence has first been confirmed by the General Officer Commanding Military Forces, Malaya. Alternatively the General Officer Commanding
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