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SUPREME COURT.

[A.D. 1873.

No. 3.]

amined as a witness upon oath or declaration, or, if a quaker, upon affir- mation, has committed wilful and corrupt perjury, or that any person, in swearing, declaring, or affirming in any affidavit, declaration, or affir- mation required to be made before the Court, has been guilty of the like offence, then, in each and every such case, it shall and may be lawful for the Court to direct a prosecution for perjury to be forthwith instituted against such person so falsely swearing, declaring, or affirming as afore- said, in order that he may be punished according to law; or where such perjury is committed by any person examined as a witness in open Court, it shall be lawful for the Court, instead of directing such prose- cution to be instituted as aforesaid, either to commit such witness, as for a contempt of the Court, to prison for any term not exceeding three months, with or without hard labour, or to fine such witness in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars: Provided that the powers herein- before given shall be in full force and operation notwithstanding any irregularity or want of form in the administration of the oath, declara- tion, or affirmation.

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of person perjury before guilty of the Court.

ne No. 2 of 1889.

See also Ordi-

make general

(EG 24-4-03)

32.—(1.) It shall be lawful for the Chief Justice to make general rules Power to Vide Order and orders for regulating the times of halding the Court, the forms to be

rules and 3-4-1903 used and the fees to be payable therein, and also the fees of counsel and orders. the costs of solicitor, and from time to time to alter, amend, or revoke such rules and orders, as occasion may require: Provided always that no such rules or orders, nor any alteration, amendment, or revocation thereof, shall be deemed binding until the same have been revised and approved of by the Legislative Council and have been published in The

Gazette.

(2.) All such rules and orders and all such alterations, amendments, and revocations thereof, when so revised, approved, and published as aforesaid, shall have the same force and effect for all purposes as if the same had been made by Ordinance, and shall in like manner come into immediate operation, subject to disallowance by Her Majesty.

ment of fees,

33. (1.). All fees receivable in the Court shall be payable in stamps, Mode of pay- subject to the provisions of any Ordinance for the time being in force relating to stamps.

(2.) The fees heretofore payable in respect of process issued by the Court shall continue to be payable in respect of such process until a new scale of fees for the Court generally is prepared and adopted.

etc.

See Ordinance No. 16 of 1901.

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