(1) A person who alleges that an enactment or anything contained in or done under the authority of that or any other enactment is inconsistent with, or is in contravention of a provision of this Constitution, may at any time bring an action in the Supreme Court for a declaration to that effect. Issued under my hand and the Public Seal of Sierra Leone this. (2) Such questions and the answers to them shall be recorded. sentenced/ordered to pay a fine/penalty of. AND WHEREAS default having been made in payment a warrant of distress has been issued, but no return has yet been made thereto: Now these are to command you to receive into your custody the saidand safely to keep him until, the..day of.19..when you shall produce him before this Court, atm unless the said sum ofbe sooner paid, on receipt of which. 144. Act regulates relations between employers and employed, and safeguards heath of the employed. a.by substituting in the second line thereof for the words "measuring, photographing and taking of fingerprint impressions or other" the words "and making of"; b.by deleting in lines 9 and 10 thereof the words "measurements, photographs, fingerprint impressions or other.". .fine or any part thereof: Now these are to command you to receive the saidInto your custody together with this, warrant, and him safely to keep in the said prison for the said period of.unless the said. attend the Supreme Court at.(place of sitting) atmonitoring, on the..day of..next and then and there to prosecute (or to prosecute and give evidence or to, give evidence) in the matter of a charge ofagainst.(name of accused) and. 348 0 obj
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(1) When, in a case tried with assessors, the case on both sides is closed, the Judge may sum up the evidence for the prosecution and defence, and shall then require each of the assessors to state his opinion orally, and shall record their opinion but the decision shall be vested exclusively in the Judge. The Adoption Act of Sierra Leone - Volume 36 Issue 1. Of 19.The Court is informed by the Attorney-General on the half of Our Lady the Queen at the instance of C.D. 77. At the sitting of the Court, the names of all the jurors summoned, special or common, shall be written on separate pieces of card or paper of equal size and put into boxes, and whenever a jury is required, the Registrar of the Court shall in open Court draw from the proper box by lot until the required number of jurors appear ,who, after all just causes of challenge allowed shall remain as fair and indifferent, and the same shall be done whenever it shall be necessary to form a new jury: Provided that if a case be brought on for trial during the time that a jury in any other case may be deliberating, a new jury may be drawn from the residue of the cards in the boxes. Search of place entered by person sought to be arrested. The lease in s question was made in May 1962. Subsection (1) of section 8 of the principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion of the word "Local" immediately after the word "Group" in line three thereof. 54. DATED this..day of. Enforcement of warrants outside jurisdiction. Only official editions of the Federal Register provide legal notice to the public and judicial notice to the courts under 44 U.S . (1) When any person is convicted of an offence and the facts constituting the offence amount also to a tort against the person or property of the prosecutor, the Court before which such person is convicted may, on the application of the prosecutor and after taking any such further evidence as it deems necessary, order the person convicted to pay the prosecutor such sum as appears to the Court to be reasonable compensation (not exceeding in the case of a summary conviction one thousand Leones) in addition to or in lieu of any other punishment. (2)The accused shall be entitled to cross-examine the witnesses for the prosecution and shall be information of such right if not represented by a legal practitioner. In the Court at. To..(person or persons who is or are to execute the warrant). 168. 141. (3) For the purposes of this section the expressions "Diamond Protection Area" and "stranger" and shall bear the meanings assigned to them in section 2 of the Diamond Industry Protection Act. to receive the said cloth on behalf of the said J.S. B., on the.day ofatin the Western Area of Sierra Leone, maliciously set fire to. (1) In a trial on indictment for murder or manslaughter, the declaration of a, person, whether it be made in the presence of the accused person or not, may be given in evidence if the. 2. If a woman convicted of an offence punishable with death be alleged to be pregnant, the Court shall enquire into the fact; and if there be reasonable cause for believing it, the sentence to be passed on her shall be a sentence of imprisonment for life instead of sentence of death. Commencement. anything unless you desire to do so, but whatever you say will be taken down in writing and may be given in evidence upon your trial. If a person refuses to enter into such recognizance the Court may commit him to prison, or into the custody of any officer of the Court, there to remain until after the trial, unless in the meantime he enter into a recognizance. (2) Where the prosecution does not put in the statement the Judge, on the application of the defence, may order the statement to be read at the conclusion of the prosecution evidence as part of the prosecution case. 210. 164. TO THE SHERIFF OF THE. 51. (2)If a witness is cross-examined at the trial on behalf of the accused on any part of the witness's statement to the police the prosecution may furnish the Court with a copy of the statement which shall become part of the record of the trial. Power of dispenses with personal attendance of accused. (3) Nothing in this section gives a right to cause the death of any person except when a constable or private person is legally attempting to arrest the person killed, upon a charge or treason, felony or inflicting a dangerous wound and the arrest of such person cannot otherwise be accomplished. f^MaZIZ%XvRKF=@/v+'@_Vi{4QEi}I1jvn/ wO.U
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o{pwWM@{le,V$9&1GsHO;= proof of any statement, and that the same was taken in all respects according to law, and such attestation and signature shall be admitted without proof unless the Court shall see reason to doubt the genuineness thereof. 100. Your are not obliged to say. 180. DATED thisday of.19.. *If the accused states that he does not wish his witnesses examined by the Magistrate but desires them to be bound over to appear before the Supreme Court, this must be stated, but on no account should a Magistrate suggest or encourage this, but should record the evidence unless the accused does not wish it. (4)Where a representative does not appear, any such requirement, and any requirement that the consent of the accused shall be obtained for summary trial, shall not apply. (3) On the restitution of any stolen property if it appears to the Court by the Evidence that the person convicted has sold the stolen property to any person, and that such person has had no knowledge that the same was stolen, and that any moneys have been taken from the person convicted on his apprehension and not returned to him under section 59, the Court may, on the application of such purchaser, order that out of such moneys a sum not exceeding the amount of the proceeds of such sale be delivered to the said purchaser. In case where any person is so fined in his absence, the Registrar of the Court shall forthwith send him a written notice of the fact, requiring him to pay the fine or to show cause before the Court within four days, for not paying the. African Law (AfricanLII) . In theCourt at. [9[,I`xs In the.Court at. (1) Every Court has authority to cause to be brought before it any person who is within the local limits of its jurisdiction and is charged with an offence committed within Sierra Leone, or which according to law may be dealt with as if it had been committed within Sierra Leone, and any person within such limits against whom a complaints is made on which the Court has power to make any order for the payment of money or otherwise, and to deal with all such persons according to its jurisdiction. When an accused person is arrested without warrant on a charge of having committed any offence other than murder or treason; and. (2) If such person forcibly resists the endeavour to arrest him, or attempts to evade the arrest, such constable or other person may use sufficient force to effect the arrest but no more. 61. 25. (1) At the close of the evidence for the prosecution and after the statement of the accused person before the committing Court has been put in evidence the Court shall in cases where the accused is not defended by counsel inform him of his right to address the Court, to give evidence on his own behalf of to make an unsworn statement and to call witnesses in his defence and in all cases shall require him or his counsel to state whether it is intended to call any witness as to fact other than the accused person himself. (1) The Attorney-General may order in writing that the power expressly vested in him by section 44 be vested for the time being any other Law Officer and the exercise of these powers by such other Law Officer shall then operate as if they had been exercised by the Attorney- General, so however that the power to enter a. in any proceedings preliminary to the committal of the accused for trial on indictment shall not be vested in any person other than the Attorney-General. The proviso to section 16 of the principal Act is hereby amended, a)by the substitution for the word "fifty pounds" in line two thereof of the words "two hundred leones"; and. 184. 0000003076 00000 n
No. (1) The provisions of section 145 shall not deprive a person of his rights under section 144 to change his election and a person who has elected to be tried by a Judge alone may afterwards elect to be tried by the Court with aid of assessors if he changes his election before the time allowed by that section has expired, otherwise his change of election shall have no effect; and in the case of persons who are charged jointly, if they have all elected in accordance with section 145 to be tried by a Judge alone, they shall be so tried unless they all change their election in accordance with this section. 165. 0000002339 00000 n
18. 213. (1) The description of property in a count in an information or indictment shall be in ordinary language, and such as to indicate with reasonable clearness the property referred to and if the property is so described it shall not be necessary, except when required for the purpose of describing an offence depending on any special ownership of property or special value of property, to name he person to whom the property belongs or the value of the property. Being An Act to Consolidate and Amend the Law Relating to Criminal Procedure. 222. Chapter I THE REPUBLIC OF SIERRA LEONE 1. 74. WHEREAS.(name) of.(address) was called Upon to enter into a recognisance to, prosecute (or to prosecute and give evidence or to give evidence) in the matter of a charge of, to be preferred againstat the sittings of the, Court to be holden at.on.the. 146. 90. A warrant shall remain in force until cancelled or executed. 85. Download: Slone Links. 4. 122. This Act may be cited as the Administrator of Estates Act, it shall come into force on such day as the President may fix by notice in the Gazette, and shall apply throughout Sierra Leone except in respect of the estate or part of the estate of the deceased native which is within the jurisdiction of a Local court.