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Persons in act of committing offence may be apprehended.
Mode of compelling the appearance of persons punishable on summary conviction.
Abettors in offences punishable on summary conviction.
Application of forfeitures and penalties upon summary conviction.
ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1865.
Malicious Injuries to Property.
51. Any person found committing any offence against this Ordinance, whether the same be punishable upon information or upon summary conviction, may be immediately apprehended, without a warrant, by any peace officer, or the owner of the property injured, or his servant, or any person authorized by him, and forthwith taken before a Police Magistrate, to be dealt with according to law.
52. Where any person shall be charged on the oath, affirmation or declaration of a credible witness before a Police Magistrate, with any offence punishable on summary conviction under this Ordinance, the Magistrate may summon the person charged to appear at a time and place to be named in such summons; and if he shall not appear accordingly, then (upon proof of the due service of the summons upon such person by delivering the same to him personally, or by leaving the same at his usual place of abode,) the Magistrate may either proceed to hear and determine the case ex parte, or issue his warrant for apprehending such person and bringing him before himself or some other Police Magistrate; or the Magistrate before whom the charge shall be made may (if he shall so think fit), without any previous summons (unless where otherwise specially directed), issue such warrant; and the Magistrate before whom the person charged shall appear or be brought shall proceed to hear and determine the case.
53. Whosoever shall aid, abet, counsel, or procure the commission of any offence which is by this Ordinance punishable on summary conviction, either for every time of its commission, or for the first and second time only, or for the first time only, shall, on conviction before a Police Magistrate, be liable, for every first, second, or subsequent offence of aiding, abetting, counselling, or procuring, to the same forfeiture and punishment to which a person guilty of a first, second, or subsequent offence as a principal offender is by this Ordinance made liable.
54. Every sum of money which shall be forfeited for the amount of any injury done shall be assessed in each case by the convicting Magistrate, and shall be paid to the party aggrieved, except where he is unknown, and in that case such sum shall be applied in the same manner as a penalty; and every sum which shall be imposed as a penalty by a Police Magistrate, whether in addition to such amount or otherwise, shall be paid to Her Majesty for the use of the Colony and in support of the
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Persons in act of committing offence may be apprehend. ed.
Mode of com- pelling the
appearance of persons punishable on summary con- viction.
Abettors in offences punishable on summary con- viction.
Application of forfeitures and penalties upon sum- mary convic- tious.
ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1865.
Malicious Injuries to Property.
51. Any person found committing any offence against this Ordinance, whether the same be punishable upon information or upon summary conviction, may be immediately apprehended, without a warrant, by any peace officer, or the owner of the property injured, or his servant, or any person authorized by him, and forthwith taken before a Police Magistrate, to be dealt with according to law.
52. Where any person shall be charged on the oath, affirmation or declaration of a credible witness before a Police Magistrate, with any offence punishable on summary conviction under this Ordinance, the Magistrate may summon the person charged to appear at a time and place to be named in such summons; and if he shall not appear accord- ingly, then (upon proof of the due service of the summons upon such person by delivering the same to him personally, or by leaving the same at his usual place of abode,) the Magistrate may either proceed to hear and determine the case ex parte, or issue his warrant for apprehending such person and bringing him before himself or some other Police Magis- trate; or the Magistrate before whom the charge shall be made may (if he shall so think fit), without any previous summons (unless where other- wise specially directed), issue such warrant; and the Magistrate before whom the person charged shall appear or be brought shall proceed to hear and determine the case.
53. Whosoever shall aid, abet, counsel, or procure the commission of any offence which is by this Ordinance punishable on summary con- viction, either for every time of its commission, or for the first and second time only, or for the first time only, shall, on conviction before a Police Magistrate, be liable, for every first, second, or subsequent offence of aiding, abetting, counselling, or procuring, to the same forfeiture and punishment to which a person guilty of a first, second, or subsequent offence as a principal offender is by this Ordinance made liable.
54. Every sum of money which shall be forfeited for the amount of any injury done shall be assessed in each case by the convicting Magis- trate, and shall be paid to the party aggrieved, except where he is unknown, and in that case such sum shall be applied in the same manner as a penalty; and every sum which shall be imposed as a penalty by a Police Magistrate, whether in addition to such amount or otherwise, shall be paid to Her Majesty for the use of the Colony and in support of the
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