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to order that the case be heard de novo by the Full Court and the same shall be so heard accordingly.

23. The following section is inserted in the Magis- Insertion trates Ordinance, 1890, immediately after section 126

thereof

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ment of law as to

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127. That part of section 4 of the Vagrancy Act, 1824, which relates to suspected persons and reputed thieves frequenting certain places and vaga with intent to commit felony shall be read and construed subject to the following pro- visions :-

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Vict. c. 112, s. 15.

54 & 55 Vict. c. 69, s. 7.

(a) The part in question shall be read and construed as if instead of the words "highway or place adjacent" there were inserted the words "or any highway or any place adjacent to a street or highway".

(b) In proving intent to commit felony it shall not be necessary to show that the person suspected was guilty of any particular act or acts tending to show his purpose or intent, and he may be convicted if from the circumstances of the case, and from his known character as proved to the magistrate before whom he is brought, it appears to such magis- trate that his intent was to commit a felony.

(c) The part in question shall apply also to every suspected person or reputed thief loitering about or in any of the places referred to with the in- tent specified as it applies to sus- pected persons and reputed thieves frequenting the places referred to with the intent specified.

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section 127 in Ordinance No. 3 of 1890.

24. Form No. 70 in the First Schedule to the Amendment Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, is amended by the addi- of Ordinance

No. 3 of 1890, tion of the following words to the form of caution, First immediately after the words "upon your trial” : -- Schedule,

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And you are clearly to understand that you

have nothing to hope from any promise of

favour and that you have nothing to fear from "any threat which may have been held out to 'you to induce you to make any admission or "confession of your guilt, but that whatever you

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say now may be given in evidence upon your "trial notwithstanding such promise or threat”.

Form No. 70.

25. Paragraph 9 of the Third Schedule to the Amendment Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, is amended by the addi- of Ordinance No. 3 of 1890 tion at the end thereof of the words,

"other than the Third offence of obtaining credit under false pretences or by Schedule. means of any other fraud under section 82 (5) (a) of the Bankruptcy Ordinance, 1891.”

Ordinance

No. 7 of 1891.

Objects and Reasons.

1. This Ordinance makes a number of minor amend- ments in the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890. That Ordinance has also been amended by Ordinance No. 2 of 1926.

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