sierra leone court act, 1965 pdf

84. b. All such amendment shall be made upon such term as the Court shall seem just. The statement of the accused as herein/hereafter recorded was taken in my presence and hearing and contains accurately the whole statement made by him. C.D., with intent to defraud, omitted or concurred in omitted from or from or in cash book belonging to the said C.D., his employer, a material particular that is to say, the receipt on the day of Le100 from H.S. 117. Privilege of persons committed for trial. SCOPE The death penalty can be imposed for the following civil and military crimes: Treason and related offences under the Treason and State Offences Act 1963; Murder under the English common law and section 121 of the CPA No 32 of General authority of Courts to bring accused persons before them. CONVICTION FOR OFFENCE OTHER THAN CHARGED. 136. Teachers in public and private schools; xi. (2) In the event of adjournment the assessors shall be required to attend at the adjourned sitting, and at every subsequent sitting till the conclusion of the trial. Where any person is to be sent in custody in pursuance of section 37, a warrant shall be issued by the Remitting Court and that warrant shall be sufficient authority to any person to whom it is directed to receive and detain the person therein named, and to carry him and deliver him up to the Court to which the person charged is remitted for 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. (1) Subject to the provisions of rules made under section 50, charges for more than one felony or for more than one misdemeanour, and charges for both felonies and misdemeanours may, if those charges are founded on the same facts or form or are a part of a series of offences of the same or a similar character, be joined in the same complaint, information or indictment and tried at the same time, but where under the provisions of this section a felony is tried together with a misdemeanour in the Supreme Court, then if the trial is with a jury, the jury shall be sworn and the person accused shall have the same right of challenging jurors as if all the offences charged in the indictment were felonies. (3)If the accused person is found guilty, the Judge shall pass sentence on him accordance to law. iv. HWnI}GXA !*#@x0@)H#sd>O{lT|9tdz>NO%y%w:2#22o}|.V7[Nd3Vipk[l1F8eY \=\iY=efO& q3|Zfqz{Ml' 'e^@1@~&Vs/ uG\$KP\ Where it appears to the Court that distress and sale of his goods and chattels would be ruinous to the person convicted and ordered to pay money for a fine or penalty and his family, or (by his confession or otherwise) that he has no goods whereon a distress may be levied, or other sufficient reason appears to the Court, the Court may, if it thinks fit, instead of or after issuing a warrant of distress commit him to prison for a period specified in the warrant, unless the money and all expenses of the commitment and conveyance to prison, to be specified in the warrant, are sooner paid. xYlCaj0_ZqsC( OU*IyM/^OT@:qxKsbIS :EApc4N( 188. Having heard you statement read do you wish to explain or add to it? Be it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with P.N. B. to commit the said offence. Pursuant to Section 121 of the Criminal Procedure Act 1965, every sentence of death shall direct that (1) Where an enactment constituting an offence states the offence to be the doing or the omission to do any one of any different acts in the alternative, or the doing or the omission to any act in any one of any different capacities, or with any one of any different intentions, or states any part of the offence in the alternative, the acts, omissions, capacities or intentions, or other matters stated in the alternative in the enactment, may be stated in the alternative in the count charging the offence. All arrested persons to be brought before a Court without delay. 25. (2) In every such case any sum of money due may be levied on the goods and chattels of the person ordered to pay the same by distress and sale under warrant; and in all cases in which a warrant of distress is issued by the Court under this section the Court may either suffer such person, to go at large or verbally, or by warrant in that behalf, order him to be kept in custody until return shall be made to the warrant of distress. (6)The accused who is to be admitted to bail shall procure such surety or sureties as in the opinion of the Court will be sufficient to ensure his appearance as and when required, and shall with him or them enter into a recognisance accordingly. Evidence of person married otherwise than by Civil or Mohammedan Marriage. No. 44. 182. Date of assent: 09 April 1976. (2) Where the Judge gives no directions for the recording of his summing up or of any direction given by him, he shall prepare a statement as soon as possible according to the best of his recollection and, for the purpose of preparing such statement, may consult any notes he may have made for his summing up or for any such direction. Act, 1965 Assented to in Her Majesty's name this 8th day of June, 1965. (7) Subject to any other provisions of these rules, it shall be sufficient describe any place, thing, matter, act or omission whatsoever to which it is necessary to refer in any information or indictment on ordinary language in such a manner as to indicate with reasonable clearness the place, time, thing, matter, act omission referred to. 178. The warrant of such first named Court shall be sufficient authority to the keeper of any prison appointed for the custody of prisoners committed for trial, although out of the jurisdiction of such Court. 3. 112. During remand the Court may, nevertheless, order the accused to be brought before it. In this Act, unless a contrary intention appears -. " Power to take depositions of persons dangerously ill. 62. (2) A medical Practitioner, shall, on any juror producing his summons to serve, at any public hospital between the hours of eight and ten in the forenoon, and complaining of ill-health and inability to attend the session, grant him gratuitously such certificate, should he be found unfit. (1) A person charged with murder or treason shall not be admitted to bail, except by a Judge. (2)Where the information is amended as aforesaid, the Court shall thereupon call upon the accused or defendant to plead to the altered information. Attorney-General may delegate certain powers to, 44. (2) A representative for the purposes of this Part need not be appointed under the seal of the corporation, and a statement in writing purporting to be signed by a managing director of the corporation, or by any person (by whatever name called) having, or being one of the persons having the management of the affairs of the corporation, to the effect that the person named in the statement has been appointed as the representative of the corporation for the purposes of this Part shall be admissible, without further proof, as. 13. The room or place in which the investigation is held shall not be an open or . But its judicial arm of governance was under imperial rein until at least in 1965 when the Court of Appeal of Sierra Leone was birthed pursuant to the Court Act of 1965 (Act No. (3)Variance between the information and the evidence adduced in support of it with respect to the time at which the alleged offence was committed is not material, if it is proved that the information was in fact made within the time, if any, limited by law for the making thereof. 125. Prosecutor and witnesses may be required to enter into recognisances. Table 1. Uttering forged document, contrary to section 6 (1) (2) of the Forgery Act, 1913. (1) Any Court issuing a warrant for the arrest of any person in respect of any offence other than murder or treason may, in its discretion, direct by endorsement on the warrant that, if such person enter into a recognisance with sufficient sureties for his attendance before the Court at a specified time and thereafter until otherwise directed by the Court, the officer to whom the warrant is directed by the Court, the officer to whom the warrant is directed shall take such security and shall released such person from custody. 4, pp. Q. Any person summoned to attend the Court as a juror who shall not without reasonable excuse (burden of proof whereof shall rest on such juror) duly attend and be present at the Court and at all times appointed by the Court for adjournments, and any person present in Court, who being called to serve as a juror, shall without reasonable excuse refuse to serve till discharged by the Court, shall be guilty of contempt of Court, and be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty Leones. law of real and personal property. (7)The Court may dispense with sureties if, in its opinion, its so dispensing will not tend to defeat the ends of justice. (1) ) Every person by pleading generally the plea of "not guilty" shall, without further form, be deemed to have put himself upon his trial, and in any plea of. 184. As soon as may be after judgment of death has been executed on the offender his body shall be examined by the Medical Officer in charge of the Prison, who shall ascertain the fact of death and sign a certificate thereof in duplicate and deliver the same to the Sheriff. 112 of 1984] Acts Nos. DATED this..day of. The African Elephant Conservation Act Central Africa has been a major focus of technical and financial support through AfECF. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the House of Representatives and found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill. postponed further proceedings in the matter: Now we hereby jointly and severally declare ourselves sureties that the said.shall be. (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. 160. Westmoreland Street, Freetown, on the.day of19 A. Trial of children and young persons. The accused shall sign or attest by his mark such record. Section 5 of the principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion immediately after the word "suspend" in line two thereof of the words, "or revoke the appointment of'. 192. Assented to in Her Majesty's name this 1st day of October, 1965. 116. The Laws of Sierra Leone on the Sierra Leone Web. A. We hereby jointly and severally declare ourselves sureties for the said (name of, accused) that he will attend the..Court on every day of the preliminary, investigation into the offence charged against him, and should the case be sent for trial by the Supreme Court, that he will be and appear before the said Court when called upon to answer the charge against him and will continue so to answer otherwise ordered by the said Court and in case of his making default herein I bind myself/we bind ourselves. (1) (1) If the condition of any recognizance be not complied with, the Court in or before which such condition ought to be performed, may endorse thereon a certificate, addressed to the Sheriff or other officer of the Court, setting forth that such condition has not been performed, and thereupon, if the amount of the recognizance be not paid within six days after service of an order and notice to do so, the same shall be recoverable by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the recognisors. 215. (2) The Supreme Court has in addition authority to cause to be brought before it any person who is within Sierra Leone if he is charged with an offence over which the Supreme Court has jurisdiction. A. 115. IN THE SUPREME COURT OF SIERRA LEONE (ORIGINAL JURISDICTION) . Forfeiture and levy of recognisances. Retrial of accused after discharge of jury. E. M., on the..day of.At.in the Western Area of Sierra Leone, sold, uttered, and. (4)Such book shall belaid before the Magistrate present at the time when and place where the recognisor is required to appear, and such Magistrate may enlarge the recognisance to such further time as he may appoint. 213. Sealing orders, warrants, etc., not generally necessary. Treason and other related offences under the Treason and State Offences Act 1963 3. 135. 63. (1) In any criminal case, and at any stage thereof before verdict or judgement, the Attorney-General may enter a nolle prosequi either by stating in Court or by informing the Court in writing that, the Crown intends that the proceedings shall not continue and thereupon the accused or the defendant as the case may be shall be at once discharged in respect of the charge for which the nolle prosequi is entered, and if he has been committed to prison shall be released or if on bail his recognisances shall be discharged; but such discharge of an accused person shall not operate as a bar to any subsequent proceedings against him on account of the same facts. Subsection (4) of section 42 of the principal Act is hereby repealed. Pursuant to section 120 of the Sierra Leone Constitution, 1978, sets forth rules of procedure for the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone, including special leaves to appeal, hearings, criminal appeals, civil appeals, judgements and orders, and jurisdiction. (2)Except where express provision is made to the contrary, every sentence shall be deemed to commence from, and to include the whole of the day of the date on which it was pronounced. The Governor-General shall issue an order under his hand and the Public Seal which may be in one of the forms set out in the Second Schedule, and if the sentence is to be carried out shall state the place, which shall be private and the time where and when the execution is to be had, and shall give directions as to the place of burial of the body of the person executed; and if the person sentenced is pardoned, the pardon shall state whether it is free or to what conditions it is subject. 103. Subsection (4) of section 42 of the principal Act is hereby repealed. When any search warrant has been executed the person who executed it shall return the warrant, together with everything seized thereunder, to the Court, Judge, Magistrate or Justice of the Peace which issued the warrant. accused) against whom a charge ofis pending before the Court at. is in my opinion capable of making his defence to the said charge. evidence that the person has been so appointed. B. has been twice previously convicted of an offence under section 22 of the Malicious, Damage Act, 1861, namely, at.on theday of..At theon the..day. Persons charged with misdemeanour not to be acquitted if offence proved felony. 8. Bin Rafaah v Precious Minerals Marketing Company (Sierra Leone) Limited (CIV APP 1 of 1999) [1998] SLCA 2 (23 October . (1) Where the accused person is not defended by counsel and state that he does not intend to call any witness as to the facts except himself, the Court shall forthwith call upon the accused to make his statement or say nothing or give evidence on oath as to the facts, and after his cross-examination (if any) he shall be permitted to address the Court if he so desires and to call any witnesses as to character. The forms set out in the Second Schedule may be used in all proceedings to which they are applicable with such variations as circumstances require, and shall valid and effectual for all purposes. The Flag of which the design is described in paragraph (b) hereof is hereby declared to be the . 168. b.it must be proved at the trial either by a certificate purporting to be signed by the Magistrate before whom the deposition purports to have been taken or by the clerk to such Magistrate, that the deposition was taken in the presence of the accused and that the accused or his advocate had full opportunity of cross-examining the witness; c.the deposition must purport to be signed by the Magistrate before whom it purports to have been taken: Provided that the provisions of this section shall not have effect in any case in which it is proved, i.that the deposition, or, where the proof required by paragraph (b) is given by means of a certificate, that the certificate was not in fact signed by the Magistrate by whom it purports to have been signed; or. 197. (1) A description of the offence charged in an information or indictment or where more than one offence is so charged, of each offence so charged, shall be set out in the information or indictment in a separate paragraph called a count. (2) Where such evidence in rebuttal is given, counsel for the defence shall be entitled to comment on the evidence so given. (3)Where such an endorsement is made, the officer in charge of any police station which on arrest the person named in the warrant is brought shall release him upon his entering into such recognisance with sureties approved by that officer in accordance with endorsement, conditioned for his appearance before the Court and at the time and place named in the recognisance. 51. Expenses of distress Expenses of commitment Expenses of conveyance to prison. When a person is accused of the commission of any offence by reason of anything which has been done or of anything which has been omitted to be done, and of any consequence which has ensued, such offence may be enquired into or tried in any district in which any such thing has been done or omitted to be done, or any such consequence has ensued. The signature and attestation of the Magistrate holding the preliminary examination shall be sufficient prima facie proof of any deposition or 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. The various classifications of these divisions indicate the types of cases that are heard in these courts. 249. WHEREAS(name) is now lying ill/hurt at(address) and is not expected to recover: And whereas it is expedient that(name), a prisoner now in your custody, should be present. (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 theCourt at. To..(name and designation of person or persons who is or are to, Whereas..(name of accused) ofAddress stands charged with the, offence of(Statement of offence). Laws of Sierra Leone, 1960, Government Printer, Freetown, Sierra Leone, Vol. the offence may enquired into and tried in any one of such Districts. 251. 72. b.by way of compensation or otherwise under sections 54 or 60. the Court may either order immediate payment, or allow time for payment, or direct payment to be made by instalments. 5 OF 2009) THE COMPANIES REGULATIONS, 2015 In exercise of the powers conferred upon the Commission by sections 494 and 530 of the Companies Act, 2009 the Commission hereby makes the following Regulations - PART I-PRELIMINARY 1. Every indictment, when signed, shall be filed in the Supreme Court. (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. (1) When the accused appears to be of sound mind at the time of the preliminary investigation, the Court, notwithstanding that it is alleged that at the time when the act was committed in respect of which the accused person is charged he was, by reason of unsoundness of mind, incapable of knowing the nature of the act, or that it was wrong or contrary to law, shall proceed with the case, and if the accused ought to be committed for trial, the Court shall so commit him. 47. 246. 26. Section 4 of the Local Courts Act is hereby amended as follows (5) The description or designation in an information or indictment of the accused or of any other person to whom reference is made therein, shall be such as is reasonably sufficient to identify him without necessarily stating his correct name, or his abode, style, degree or occupation, and if owing to the name of the person not being known, or for any other reason, it is impracticable to give such a description or designation, shall be given as is reasonably practicable in the circumstances, or such person may be described as "a person unknown". (2) If either the prosecutor or accused shall refuse to give his assent the Court may direct that a juror shall be added and the jury re-sworn, or that the jury shall be discharged and a new jury empanelled and in either of these cases the trial shall commence anew. 62. Judge only may authorize search in Post and Telegraph Offices. In the..Court at. To.(name and designation of person or persons who is or are to execute the warrant). Powers of Director of Public Prosecutions. Certificate of death by Medical Officer. PART V - SPECIAL TRIALS TRIAL OF CORPORATIONS. Fraudulent conversion of property, contrary to section 20 (1) (iv) (a) of the Larceny Act, 1916. Date of commencement: 09 April 1976. A warrant shall remain in force until cancelled or executed. Having heard the evidence. (2)The whole of the statement of the accused shall be recorded in full, and shall be shown or read to the accused, and he shall be at liberty to explain or add to his statement. In default of the amount being recovered by such distress and sale, the recognisors may be imprisoned for any period not exceeding sixty days, but the Court in or before which the condition of any recognizance ought to be performed may cancel or mitigate the forfeiture upon such terms and conditions (if any) as the Court may think just. Acting Clerk of the House of Representatives. in the House of Representatives this 23rd day of September, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixth-five. In theCourt at. 60. 242. 101. The National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 1966 (16 U.S.C. Proceedings in a Preliminary Investigation when Case for the Prosecution is closed. 0000001488 00000 n Depositions admissible in certain cases. 0000073714 00000 n Leone, and that they were then able to supply certain articles of jewelry to whomsoever would remit to them the sum of twenty leones. The Literary Theory Handbook introduces students to the history and scope of literary theory, showing them how to perform literary analysis, and providing a greater understanding of the historical contexts for different theories.. A new edition of this highly successful text, which includes updated and refined chapters, and new sections on contemporary theories Expenses of conveyance to prison .. (1) The accused person shall be allowed to examine any witness, although not previously bound over to give evidence and shall, if he apprehends that the witness will not attend the trial voluntarily, be entitled to apply for the issue of process to compel the witness's attendance. 198. are). 133. In proceedings to which no such forms are applicable the Master of the Supreme Court may, with the approval of the Chief Justice, from time to time frame the forms required and such forms shall be published in the. 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. The fact that the indictment has been so signed shall be equivalent to a statement that all conditions required by law to constitute the offence charged, and to give the Court jurisdiction, have been fulfilled in the particular case. Section 5 of the principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion immediately after the word "suspend" in line two thereof of the words, "or revoke the appointment of'. (1) The Magistrate of each Judicial District shall prepare and settle a jurors' list for his area for the year commencing on the first day of January in each year in accordance with the provisions of this part. (1) Where any person, other than a person liable to be arrested without a warrant, who has been accused of committing an offence refuses on demand of a constable to give his name and place of residence, or gives a name or place of residence which the constable has reason to believe to be false, he may be arrested by the constable in order that his name and place of residence may be ascertained. 57. (Public Seal) Governor. 237. (1) Where in the course of a criminal trial any member of the jury dies or is discharged by the Court as being through illness incapable of continuing to act or for any other reason, the jury shall nevertheless, subject to assent being given in writing by or on behalf of both the prosecutor and the accused and so long as the number of its members is not reduced below ten, be considered as remaining for all the purposes of that trial properly constituted and the trial shall proceed and a verdict may be given accordingly. Now these are to authorise and require you to enter on the record a statement that the proceedings are stayed by my direction. In case of refusal may be imprisoned. 25 dated 31st May, 2007 ii. 87. To.. (name and designation of person or persons who is or are to, investigation into the offence charged against him, and should the case be sent for trial by the Supreme Court, that he will be and appear before the said Court when called upon to answer the charge against him and will continue so to, answer otherwise ordered by the said Court and in case of his making default herein I bind myself/we bind ourselves, Passed in the House of Representatives this 5. (2)Such warrants issued by any Magistrate's Court shall be enforce by the Magistrate of the district in which the person against whom such warrants or any goods and chattels of such person, may be found. BOSTON, Governor-General. b)by the insertion immediately after the word "of' in the third line of subsection (3) thereof of the words "not more than". (3) For the purposes of this section the expression "sessions" does not include any sessions designated by the Chief Justice as a special sessions. (1) The substance of the charge shall be stated to the accused, or defendant and he shall be asked if he admits or denies the truth of the charge. (2) Notwithstanding any rule of law or practice, an information or indictment shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, not be open to objection in respect of its form or contents if it is framed in accordance with the rules under this Act. One of the sections so applied is 14 which imposes restrictions on, and relief against, forfeiture of leases. 58. WHEREAS.(name of offender) was on the.day, of19..convicted before me of the offence of..and. Download as pdf. making known your authority and demanding admission. 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