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(ii) determining the smallest amount of money on deposit on which interest is to be credited to an account to which money placed on deposit belongs;
(ii) determining the time at which money placed on deposit is to begin and to cease to bear interest and the mode of computing such interest; and (iv) determining the cases in which interest on money placed on deposit and the dividends on any securities standing in the name of the registrar is or are to be placed on deposit,
(4) The power to make rules under this section shall include power to make rules as to proceedings by or against the Crown.
(5) Rules made under this section shall apply to all proceed- ings by or against the Crown only insofar as they expressly purport so to do.
23. (t) The Supreme Court (Summary Jurisdiction) Ordin- ance, except sections 1, 2, subsection (2) of section 32 and sections 33. 34 and 35 thereof, is hereby repealed.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1), any action or other proceeding pending which has not been disposed of prior to the commencement of this Ordinance shall be disposed of and dealt with in like manner as if this Ordinance had not been passed.
(3) Subsection (2) of section 32 and sections 33. 34 and 35 of the Supreme Court (Summary Jurisdiction) Ordinance (which relate to appeals) shall apply to civil proceedings in the District Court with such verbal alterations and modifications not affecting the substance thereof as may be necessary to render the same conveniently applicable.
(4) The registrar shall have custody of the "Register of Civil Actions, Summary Jurisdiction" referred to in section 12 of the Supreme Court (Summary Jurisdiction) Ordinance, and all other records, files, documents and papers of the Supreme Court in its summary jurisdiction before the commencement of this Ordin- ance, and shall dispose of the same in accordance with any directions given by the Chief Justice.
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PART IV.
Criminal JuriSDICTION,
24. The District Court shall have jurisdiction to hear and Criminal jurisdic- determine in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance all tion, such charges as the Attorney General may lawfully prefer under the provisions of section 25.
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25. (1) Where a charge or complaint has been transferred to Frocedure the District Court by a magistrate in accordance with the provi- transfer of sions of Part IIA of the Magistrates Ordinance, the District charge or Court shall have jurisdiction and powers over all proceedings in plaint
(Cap. 227). relation to the offence therein alleged similar to the jurisdiction and powers the Supreme Court would have had if the accused person had been committed to that court for trial on indictment for a similar offence, save that nothing in this section shall be deemed to give jurisdiction to hear and determine such charge or complaint,
(2) Where a charge or complaint has been transferred as aforesaid, the Attorney General shall, unless he enters a nolle prosequi, deliver to the registrar a charge sheet setting forth the charge or charges preferred in the name of Her Majesty against the accused person, and any such charge may allege the com- mission of any indictable offence not included in any of the cate- gories specified in Part 111 of the Schedule to the Magistrates Ordinance.
(3) Such charge sheer shall he delivered within fourteen days after the date of the order of transfer or such longer period as the District Court may, in any particular case, allow on any application made by or on behalf of the Attorney General.
26. (1) Where a charge or complaint has been transferred Nolle as aforesaid, the Attorney General may, at any time before judg. prosequi ment enter a nolle prosequi by informing the District Court orally or in writing that the Crown intends that the proceedings shall not continue, and thereupon the accused person shall be discharged in respect of the charge for which the nolle prosequi is entered: Provided that such discharge shall not operate as a bar to any subsequent proceedings against him on account of the same facts.
(2) Upon the entry of a nolle prosequi under this section, if the accused person has been committed to prison he shall be released, or if on bail all recognizances in respect of his person