ORDINANCE No. 3 OF 1852.
Law of Evidence.
receive, and examine evidence as aforesaid; provided it be proved to be an examined copy or extract, or provided it purports to be signed and certified as a true copy or extract by the officer to whose custody the original is entrusted, and which officer is hereby required to furnish such certified copy or extract to any person applying at a reasonable time for the same, upon payment of a reasonable sum for the same, not exceeding twenty-five cents for every folio of ninety words.
9. If any officer authorized or required by this Ordinance to furnish any certified copies or extracts, shall wilfully certify any document as being a true copy or extract, knowing that the same is not a true copy or extract, as the case may be, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and be liable, upon conviction, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding eighteen months.
10. The Supreme Court, and every Judge, Justice, Officer, Commissioner, Arbitrator, or other person, now or hereafter having, by law or by consent of parties, authority to hear, receive, and examine evidence with respect to or concerning any suit, action, or other proceeding, is hereby empowered to administer an oath to all such witnesses as are legally called before them respectively.
11. If any person shall forge the seal, stamp, or signature of any document in this Ordinance mentioned or referred to, or shall tender in evidence any such document with a false or counterfeit seal, stamp, or signature thereto, knowing the same to be false or counterfeit, he shall be guilty of felony, and shall, upon conviction, be liable to transportation for seven years, or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three years, nor less than one year with hard labour; and whenever any such document shall have been admitted in evidence by virtue of this Ordinance, the Court or the person who shall have admitted the same, may, at the request of any party against whom the same is so admitted in evidence, direct that the same shall be impounded and be kept in the custody of some officer of the Court or other proper person, for such period, and subject to such conditions, as to the said Court or person shall seem meet; and every person who shall be charged with committing any felony under this Ordinance, may be dealt with, indicted, tried, and, if convicted, sentenced, and his offence may be laid and charged to have been committed in the place in which he shall be apprehended or be in custody; and every accessory before or after the fact to any such offence may be dealt with, indicted, tried, and, if convicted, sentenced, and his offence may be laid and charged to have been committed in any place in which the principal offender may be tried.
12. Nothing herein contained shall repeal any provision contained in chapter twenty-six of the Statute passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the seventh year of the reign of King William the Fourth and the first year of the reign of Her present Majesty.
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Certifying a false document a misdemeanour.
Court, &c., may administer oaths. [See Ord. No. 2 of 1860]
Persons forging seal, stamp, or signature of certain documents, or wilfully uttering same, guilty of felony.
Nothing herein to interfere with law of wills.
[Repealed by Ordinance No. 2 of 1889.]
ORDINANCE No. 3 OF 1852.
Law of Evidence.
receive, and examine evidence as aforesaid; provided it be proved to be au examined copy or extract, or provided it purports to be signed and certified as a true copy or extract by the officer to whose custody the original is entrusted, and which officer is hereby required to furnish such certified copy or extract to any person applying at a reasonable time for the same, upon payment of a reasonable sum for the same, not ex- ceeding twenty-five cents for every folio of ninety words.
9. If any officer authorized or required by this Ordinance to furnish any certified copies or extracts, shall wilfully certify any document as being a true copy or extract, kuowing that the same is not a true copy or extract, as the case may be, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and be liable, upon conviction, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding eighteen months.
10. The Supreme Court, and every Judge, Justice, Officer, Commissioner, Arbi- trator, or other person, now or hereafter having, by law or by consent of parties, authority to hear, receive, and examine evidence with respect to or concerning any suit, action, or other proceeding, is hereby empowered to administer an oath to all such witnesses as are legally called before them respectively.
11. If any person shall forge the seal, stamp, or signature of any document in this Ordinance mentioned or referred to, or shall tender in evidence any such docu- ment with a false or counterfeit seal, stamp, or signature thereto, knowing the same to be false or counterfeit, he shall be guilty of felony, and shall, upon conviction, be liable to transportation for seven years, or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three years, nor less than one year with hard labour; and whenever any such document shall have been admitted in evidence by virtue of this Ordinance, the Court or the person who shall have admitted the same, inay, at the request of any party against whom the same is so admitted in evidence, direct that the same shall be impounded and be kept in the custody of some officer of the Court or other proper person, for such period, and subject to such conditions, as to the said Court or person shall seem meet; and every person who shall be charged with committing any felony under this Ordi- nance, may be dealt with, indicted, tried, and, if convicted, sentenced, and his offence may be laid and charged to have been committed in the place in which he shall be apprehended or be in custody; and every accessory before or after the fact to any such offence may be dealt with, indicted, tried, and, if convicted, sentenced, and his offence may be laid and charged to have been committed in any place in which the principal offender may be tried.
12. Nothing herein contained shall repeal any provision contained in chapter twenty-six of the Statute passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the seventh year of the reign of King William the Fourth and the first year of the reign of Her present Majesty.
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Certifying a false document a mis- demeanour.
Court, &c, may administer oaths. [See Ord. No. 2 of 1860]
Persons forging scal, stamp, or signature of cer- tain documents, or wilfully utter- ing same, guilty of felony.
Nothing herein to interfere with law of wills.
[Repealed by Ordinance No. 2 of 1889.]
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