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Citation

we in LDTHOM URS15222160(9)

DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS (COLONIAL REGULATIONS) REGULATIONS

Extracted from Annex V of Civil Service Regulations)

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In exercise of the powers conferred by Colonial Regulations 56, 57 and 65, the Governor, with the approval the Secretary of State, has cade the following regulations

1. These regulations may be cited as the Disciplinary

Proceedings (Colonial Regulations) Regulations.

2.

General Application

These regulations shall apply only confirmed to the permanent establishment.

Application

3.

to Judiciary

Officers to be given chance to exculpate himself

to

officers

(1) Nothing in these regulations shall apply to â judge of the Supreme Court of the District Court.

(2) In their application to the Registrar, Deputy Registrar or an Assistant Registrar of the Supreme Court, a president of a Tenancy Tribunal, president of the Lands Tribunal, a presiding officer of the Labour Tribunal or a Magistrate, these regulations shall be read as if

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

4.

(1)

the reference in Regulations 7(2) and 8(3) to the Governor were references to the Chief Justice;

an Investigating Officer OT 20 Investigating Committee shall be appointed under regulation 5 by the Chief Justice;

an Investigating Officer shall be a judge of the Supreme Court; and

an Investigating Committee shall normally include one O more Supreme Court judges or

persons who have held high judicial office in some Commonwealth country

The Governor shall, before he orders an investigation for the purposes of C.R. 56 or C.R. 57

(a) notify the officer of the grounds on which it is

proposed to order an investigation;

(b)

call upon the officer to state in writing, within such reasonable period as the Governor may specify, any grounds upon which he relies to exculpate himself.

Amendment No. 7(c)/78