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provided for by section 252 (2) of that Ordinance. It has not been thought necessary to provide specially for service on any other corporations. Sub-section (3) of the section in the Criminal Justice Act, 1925, referred to above, deals with the arraignment of a corporation before the court of assize or quarter sessions. A provision based on that sub-section will be inserted in the Criminal Procedure Ordinance, 1899, which is shortly to be amended.
9. The third schedule to the principal Ordinance contains a list of offences excluded from summary jurisdiction. This list includes the following item :-
(9) Any offence against any provision of the laws relating to bankrupts.
In 1906 it was decided to give the magistrates jurist diction to deal with the offences of obtaining credi- under false pretences or by means of any other fraud. This might have been done by amending the third schedule, but it was actually done, in Ordinance No. 2 of 1906, by inserting in section 80 of the principal Ordinance the provision which now appears as sub- section (2). As the present form of the third schedule might conceivably form a trap on this point, this Ordi- nance repeals section 80 (2) and amends the third schedule by excepting from the above item any offence under section 82 (5) (a) of the Bankruptcy Ordinance, 1891. Section 9 of this Ordinance effects the repeal of section 80 (2) of the principal Ordinance. The third schedule is amended by section 24 of this Ordi- nauce. Section 9 also repeals section 80 (3) of the principal Ordinance. The power there given to a magistrate to direct the accused to be kept in solitary confinement is not used.
10. Section 10 amends paragraph (6) of section 85 of the principal Ordinance by substituting a reference to the present Stowaways Ordinance, 1924, for a refer- ence to the Stowaways Ordinance, 1903, which has heen repealed.
11. Section 11 repeals section 93 of the principal Ordinance and substitutes a new section. The section in question deals with various offences connected with drunkenness. The principal changes are as follows:
(a) The present section 93 (1) provides varying penalties for the first, second and subsequent convictions, of being found drunk in a public place, ..., fines of $5, $10 and $15. The new section 93 (1) provides a single penalty of $10.
(4) The maximum penalty for being drank while in charge of a motor vehicle is increased to $250 and imprisonment for six months. The present maximum penalty under section 93 (2) is $25 or imprisonment for two months. The new maximum penalty is the same as that under section 4 of the Vehicles and Traffic Regulation Ordinance, 1912, Ordi- nance No. 40 of 1912.
(c) Sub-section (5) of the new section 93 con- tains a definition of drunkenness which is taken from the report of the committee appointed by the British Medical Association on the 21st October, 1925, to report upon the tests for drunkenness. The committee re- ported on the 9th February, 1927, and suggested the definition of drunkenness which is adopted in this Ordinance.
(d) The maximum penalty for being drunk while in possession of loaded firearms is increased from $25 or two months to $250 and impri-
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