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complainant or informant;
(c) a warrant of commitment shall not be held void by reason of any defect therein, if it is alleged that the offender has been convicted or ordered to do or to abstain from doing any act or thing required to be done or left undone, and there is a good and valid conviction or order to sustain the same;
(d) a warrant of distress shall not be deemed void by reason only of any defect therein, if it is therein alleged that a conviction or order has been made, and there is a good and valid conviction or order to sustain the same, and a person acting under a warrant of distress shall not be deemed a trespasser ab initio by reason only of any defect in the warrant or of any irregularity in the execution of the warrant; but this enactment shall not prejudice the right of any person to satisfaction for any special damage caused by any defect in or irregularity in execution of a warrant of distress; and
(e) all goods forfeited by order of a magistrate may be sold in such manner as the magistrate may direct.
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33. (1) In all proceedings under this Part the magistrate at the hearing shall take or cause to be taken in writing proceedings. a full minute, so far as circumstances permit, of the following matters-
(a) the nature of the complaint or information;
(b) the names of the complainant, informant or prosecutor, and of the defendant, and of the respective witnesses on either side;
(c) the evidence or depositions of the witnesses; (d) objections to the admissibility of evidence and whether the same have been allowed or disallowed; and
(e) the fines, if any, paid into court.
(2) The minute shall, immediately after the close of the case, be handed to the magistrates' clerk for safe custody.
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34. (1) The magistrates' clerk shall keep a register in Register of the prescribed form of the minutes or memoranda of all the convictions and orders of the magistrate and of such other cases.
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complainant or informant;
(c) a warrant of commitment shall not be held void by reason of any defect therein, if it is alleged that the offender has been convicted or ordered to do or to abstain from doing any act or thing required to be done or left undone, and there is a good and valid conviction or order to sustain the same;
(d) a warrant of distress shall not be deemed void by reason only of any defect therein, if it is therein alleged that a conviction or order has been made, and there is a good and valid conviction or order to sustain the same, and a person acting under a warrant of distress shall not be deemed a trespasser ab initio by reason only of any defect in the war- rant or of any irregularity in the execution of the warrant; but this enactment shall not prejudice the right of any person to satisfaction for any special damage caused by any defect in or irregularity in execution of a warrant of distress; and
(e) all goods forfeited by order of a magistrate may be sold in such manner as the magistrate may direct.
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Minute of
Rules.
33. (1) In all proceedings under this Part the magis- trate at the hearing shall take or cause to be taken in writing proceedings. a full minute, so far as circumstances permit, of the follow- Form 18. ing matters-
(a) the nature of the complaint or information;
(b) the names of the complainant, informant or prosecu- tor, and of the defendant, and of the respective witnesses on either side;
(c) the evidence or depositions of the witnesses; (d) objections to the admissibility of evidence and whether the same have been allowed or disallowed; and
(e) the fines, if any, paid into court.
(2) The minute shall, immediately after the close of the case, be handed to the magistrates' clerk for safe, custody.
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34. (1) The magistrates' clerk shall keep a register in Register of the prescribed form of the minutes or memoranda of all the 42 & 43 Vict. convictions and orders of the magistrate and of such other c. 49, s. 29.
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