Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)

• 1. Short title

• 2. Commencement

• 3. Application of Code

• 4. General construction of Code

• 5. Common law procedure to apply where necessary

• 6. Interpretation

• 7. Claim of right

• 8. Consent by deceit or duress void

• 9. Consent void by incapacity

• 10. Consent by mistake of fact

• 11. Consent by exercise of undue authority

• 12. Consent by person in authority not given in good faith

• 13. Exercise of authority

• 14. Explanation of authority

• 15. Invalid consent not prejudicial

• 16. Extent of justification

• 17. Consent to fight cannot justify harm

• 18. Consent to killing unjustifiable

• 19. Consent to harm or wound

• 20. Medical or surgical treatment must be proper

• 21. Medical or surgical or other force to minors or others in custody

• 22. Use of force, where person unable to consent

• 23. Revocation annuls consent

• 24. Ignorance or mistake of fact

• 25. Ignorance of law no excuse

• 26. (Repealed by the Child Justice Act)

• 27. Presumption of mental disorder

• 28. Intoxication, when an excuse

• 29. Aider may justify same force as person aided

• 30. Arrest with or without process for crime

• 31. Arrest, etc., other than for indictable offence

• 32. Bona fide assistant and correctional officer

• 33. Bona fide execution of defective warrant or process

• 34. Reasonable use of force in self-defence

• 35. Defence of property, possession of right

• 36. Force to repel trespasser

• 37. Force to remove trespasser

• 38. Force for recovery of possession of goods

• 39. Defence of right

• 40. Unlawful fight not justifiable

• 41. Force against interferer

• 42. Force in execution of a sentence

• 43. Force to preserve order

• 44. Preservation of order on vessel

• 45. Force within statutory authority justifiable

• 46. Force against riotous or unlawful assembly

• 47. Automatism

• 48. Duress of circumstance

• 49. Duress by threat

• 50. Necessity

• 51. Proof of defence of automatism, duress or necessity

• 52. Causing event by involuntary agent

• 53. Several persons causing event

• 54. Event caused by intervening circumstances

• 55. Liability for attempts and negligence or recklessness

• 56. Intent

• 57. Transferred Intention

• 58. Definition of negligence

• 59. Negligence where act likely to cause unjustifiable event

• 60. Recklessness

• 61. Definition of threat

• 62. Aiding and abetting a crime

• 63. Aiding and abetting crime within, from outside jurisdiction

• 64. Aiding and abetting crime committed

• 65. Punishment where crime aided and abetted is not committed

• 66. Punishment where different crime is committed

• 67. Aiding and abetting riot, etc.

• 68. Trial of accomplices

• 69. Trial of more than one accomplice

• 70. Exemption, etc. available for any accomplice irrespective of others

• 71. Punishment for aiding and abetting

• 72. Punishment for non-prevention of crime

• 73. Conspiracy to commit crime

• 74. Conspiracy to aid and abet a crime

• 75. Person within jurisdiction agreeing with person outside jurisdiction to commit or abet crime

• 76. Punishment of conspiracy

• 77. Attempt to commit crime

• 78. Punishment for attempt to commit crime

• 79. Application of exemption, justification etc., provisions to attempt

• 80. Preparation for commission of crime

• 80A. Participation in an organized criminal group

• 81. Part 3 of Chapter 1 to apply to causing death

• 82. Causing death of a child

• 83. Unlawful command to kill. Special provision as to aiding and abetting

• 84. Death outside from harm within jurisdiction of Courts

• 85. Murder

• 86. Capital murder

• 87. Non-capital murder

• 88. Attempt to murder

• 89. Attempted murder by inmate

• 90. Diminished responsibility

• 91. Provocation

• 92. Death caused by gross negligence or recklessness

• 93. Penalty for manslaughter

• 94. Aiding and abetting of suicide, attempt to commit suicide

• 95. Suicide pact

• 96. Administering noxious substance

• 97. Reckless harm

• 98. Grievous harm

• 99. Maim or dangerous harm

• 100. Wounding

• 101. Using corrosives, explosives, weapons, or dangerous means

• 102. Harm with aggravation

• 103. Harm with violence

• 104. Hindering escape from wreck, or protection from harm

• 105. Harm by omission explained

• 106. Duty to prevent harm

• 107. Duty to supply necessaries of health and life

• 108. Duty constituted by office, undertaking or conduct

• 109. Provisions as to causing event to apply

• 110. Punishment of careless surgical or medical treatment

• 111. Negligent harm

• 112. Negligent grievous harm

• 113. Negligent harm or negligence endangering life

• 114. Threat of death

• 115. Offence of assault

• 115A. HOSTAGE-TAKING

• 115B. Migrant Smuggling

• 116. Aggravated assault on male under 12 years or female

• 117. Acts not constituting assaults

• 118. Stalking

• 119. Report of suspected cases of abuse

• 120. Kidnapping

• 121. False imprisonment

• 122. Interpretation

• 123. Rape

• 124. Unlawful sexual connection

• 125. Inducing sexual intercourse or sexual connection by force, duress, etc.

• 126. Sexual intercourse with a person under 12 years

• 127. Sexual intercourse with a person between 12 years and 16 years

• 128. Sexual intercourse with an adopted minor, etc.

• 129. Sexual intercourse with a minor employee

• 130. Indecent assault

• 131. Indecent act

• 132. Gross Indecency

• 133. Buggery

• 134. Bestiality

• 135. Unlawful detention of a person with intent to have sexual intercourse

• 136. Hearings in camera

• 137. Court may forbid publication of report

• 138. Anonymity of complainant and accused

• 139. Soliciting sexual favours in the workplace

• 140. Transmission of HIV

• 141. Procuring or aiding and abetting

• 142. Procuring defilement or abetment of defilement by guardian or parent

• 143. Keeping brothel

• 144. Power of lessor to require assignment of lease on conviction of lessee or occupier

• 145. Liability of landlord on failure to determine lease after notice

• 146. Liability of landlord leasing again to same person after determination of former lease

• 147. Trading in prostitution

• 148. Spouse competent witness

• 149. Trading in prostitution by female

• 150. Soliciting prostitution

• 151. Living on earnings of prostitution

• 152. Preventing or delaying police entry into suspected brothel, or gaming-house

• 153. Conspiracy to defile by false pretence or means

• 154. Defilement of male or female suffering from mental disorder

• 155. Defilement of inmate of asylum

• 156. Permitting or aiding and abetting defilement of male or female

• 157. Incest

• 158. Attempt to commit incest

• 159. Divesting guardian of authority over minor

• 160. Abduction

• 161. Special provisions

• 162. Abduction of unmarried male or female under 16 years

• 163. Abduction of male or female of any age with intent to marry or defile

• 164. Medical or surgical treatment

• 165. Explanation as to termination of pregnancy

• 166. Termination of pregnancy in certain cases

• 167. Explanation as to causing harm to child at birth

• 168. Penalty for causing harm to child at birth

• 169. Abandoning child under 5 years at hospital, etc.

• 170. Exposing child under 7 years to grievous harm

• 171. “Child stealing” defined and explained

• 172. Stealing child under 12 years

• 173. Pretending, child legitimate, or substituting one child for another

• 174. Concealment of body of child

• 175. Concealment of birth, existence, or death of child

• 176. Compulsory marriage of person

• 177. Proof of former marriage

• 178. Definition of bigamy

• 179. Plea of divorce

• 180. Penalty for bigamy

• 181. Causing marriage by force or duress

• 182. False declarations or statements for purposes of marriage

• 183. False impediment to marriage

• 184. False solemnization of marriage

• 185. Feigned marriage

• 186. Marriage by unmarried person with other person known to be married

• 187. Personating or marrying under false name or description

• 188. Basic definition of theft

• 189. Dishonest appropriation

• 190. Meaning of appropriation

• 191. Property capable of being stolen

• 192. Belonging to another

• 193. With the intention of permanently depriving the other of it

• 194. Penalty for theft

• 195. Common stealing

• 196. Stealing from dwelling, place of business or worship

• 197. Stealing by employee

• 198. Stealing from person

• 199. Stealing telegraph or telephone parts

• 200. Stealing from vessels

• 201. Liability of part owner for breach of trust or stealing

• 202. Proof to rebut proof of lawful appropriation

• 203. “Fraudulent breach of trust” defined

• 204. Person undertaking to hold his or her own property as trustee

• 205. Fraudulent breach of trust

• 206. Robbery

• 207. Burglary

• 208. Aggravated burglary

• 209. Removal of articles from places open to the public

• 210. Abstracting of electricity

• 211. Obtaining property by deception

• 212. Obtaining pecuniary advantage by deception

• 213. Obtaining services by deception

• 214. Evasion of liability by deception

• 215. Making off without payment

• 216. Issuing cheque or negotiable instrument with intent to defraud

• 217. Fraud by pawner of property

• 218. Fraud by person evading intended execution against his or her property

• 219. False accounting

• 220. Liability of company officers for certain offences by company

• 221. False statements by company directors, etc.

• 222. Suppression, etc., of documents

• 223. Blackmail

• 224. Handling stolen goods

• 225. Advertising rewards for return of goods stolen or lost

• 226. Scope of offences relating to stolen goods

• 227. Going equipped for stealing, etc.

• 228. Search for stolen goods

• 229. Orders for restitution

• 230. Husband and wife

• 231. Interpretation

• 232. Definition

• 233. Counterfeiting of stamp, note, etc. defined

• 234. Falsification of note, noteage, etc.. defined

• 235. Forgery of documents defined

• 236. Possessing or doing act as to note or stamp not genuine defined

• 237. Possessing or doing act as to document not genuine defined

• 238. Completeness of imitation unnecessary

• 239. Falsification effected within or beyond jurisdiction immaterial

• 240. Testing suspected tendered note

• 241. False claims generally

• 242. Common noteing

• 243. Falsifying note

• 244. Damaging or destroying note

• 245. Possessing false note

• 246. Purchasing or possessing forged bank note

• 247. Imitation of currency notes

• 248. Uttering or using false note

• 249. Forgery of hall-mark or the like

• 250. Common forgery

• 251. Forgery, concealment, etc., of accounts

• 252. Concealing or falsifying affairs of company or trust

• 253. Concealing, falsifying, etc. certain documents

• 254. Concealing title on mortgage or sale of land

• 255. Punishment for forgery by claiming on forged document

• 256. Punishment for forgery of document by coercion

• 257. Forgery of document

• 258. Punishment for forgery of document made or used in name of or for another without authority

• 259. Forgery of certain documents

• 260. Forgery of official or judicial document

• 261. Forgery of stamp

• 262. Forgery of other documents

• 263. Uttering or using false document

• 264. Possessing false document

• 265. Fraud as to boundary mark

• 266. Fraud as to insurance

• 267. Computer fraud

• 268. Definition

• 269. Non-disclosure of property

• 270. Concealment of property

• 271. Concealment of books and papers; falsification

• 272. False statements

• 273. Fraudulent disposal of property

• 274. Absconding

• 275. Fraudulent dealing with property obtained on credit

• 276. Obtaining credit falsely

• 277. False claims or proofs in bankruptcy

• 278. Obtaining credit; engaging in business

• 279. Failure to keep proper accounts of business

• 280. Gambling

• 281. Defence of innocent intention

• 282. Penalty

• 283. Criminal liability of debtor despite composition or discharge

• 284. Extortion by accusation of infamous offence

• 285. Extortion or attempted extortion by threats

• 286. Definitions

• 287. Arson by fire of building, mine or adjacent thing or of thing near a vessel

• 288. Arson by fire of dwelling or vessel

• 289. Arson by fire of crop, forest or plantation

• 290. Arson by explosion to building, machine, road or other property; and possession of explosives

• 291. Arson by fire not otherwise expressly provided for

• 292. Explanation of unlawful damage and amount of damage

• 293. Destroying bankers' books

• 294. Damage to building, bridge, mine, vessel or other work on land, in water or machinery or tools

• 295. Damage to document

• 296. Damage to lighthouse or other safety signal

• 297. Damage to thing manufactured

• 298. Compensation for damage to property

• 299. Abetting assault on superior officer, or desertion, by soldier or sailor

• 300. Abetting insubordination by soldier or sailor

• 301. Abetting mutiny by soldier or sailor

• 302.   Intentionally aiding escape of inmate of war

• 303. Evading military or naval service

• 304. Definitions

• 305. Seditious libel or party to seditious assembly

• 306. Penalty for piracy

• 307.   Treason

• 308. Concealment of treason

• 309. Prosecution for treason

• 310. Definition of overt act

• 311. Causing disaffection in Police Force

• 312. Unauthorised use of police uniforms

• 313. Libel

• 314. Defamatory matter defined

• 315. Publication of defamatory matter

• 316. Defamatory publication unlawful unless privileged

• 317. Absolute privilege good defence

• 318. Conditional privilege on publication in good faith

• 319. Absence of good faith

• 320. Circumstances showing good faith

• 321 Newspaper proprietor presumed responsible

• 322. Newspaper proprietor's general authority to manage, when negligence

• 323. Protection of innocent seller of newspaper

• 324. Protection of the innocent seller of book or periodical

• 325. Sale by employee

• 326. Plea of justification of libel

• 327. Penalty for intentional libel

• 328. Penalty for negligent libel

• 329. Defaming or insulting the Crown

• 330. Sale of pornographic material

• 331. Public benefit good defence

• 332. Public election

• 333. Intimidation

• 334. Irregularity no defence

• 335. Corruption, intimidation, personation as to election

• 336. False declaration or the like for voting at election

• 337. Falsifying, damaging or destroying voting paper or thing used at election

• 338. False count or return of votes as to election

• 339.   Preventing or disturbing election by force, threats, crime

• 340. Voting or offering to vote unlawfully

• 341. Definition of rioting

• 342. Order for rioters to disperse

• 343. Dispersing rioters after order made

• 344. Assaulting person suppressing or dispersing riot

• 345. Assembling to commit riot

• 346. Preventing making of order

• 347. Provoking riot

• 348. Taking part in riot

• 349. Commission of other offence in course of rioting

• 350. Rioting after order

• 351. Rioting with weapons

• 352. Carrying arms unlawfully to cause terror

• 353. Affray

• 354. Violent disorder

• 355. Fear of provocation of violence

• 356. Harassment, alarm or distress

• 357. Definitions

• 358. Advocating genocide

• 359. Public incitement of hatred

• 360. Warrant of seizure

• 361. Forfeiture and surrender

• 362.   Bombs, hoaxes, sending messages or articles to alarm or injure other persons

• 363.   Obstructing, etc, lawful assembly with violence

• 364. Forcible occupation or possession of building or land

• 365. Forcible entry into building or land

• 366. Correctional officer torturing etc. inmate

• 367. Introducing prohibited thing into correctional facility

• 368. Disturbing market or exchange by publication of false news or telegrams

• 369. Unlawful oath

• 370.   Definition of compounding crime

• 371. Compounding crime

• 372. Compounding indictable offence on summary offence

• 373. Compounding any offence involving child

• 374.   Causing person to refrain from giving evidence at criminal trial

• 375. Causing witness to disobey summons or not to produce evidence

• 376. Perverting the course of justice

• 377. Violence to intimidate judicial officers, etc.

• 378. Delaying or preventing inquest by burial, or other disposal of body

• 379. Failure by coroner or others liable, to take steps to hold inquest

• 380. Contempt of Court

• 381. Falsifying, destroying, etc. register of record

• 382. Destroying, damaging, etc. will or land title

• 383. Removing, damaging, etc. document

• 384. Fabricating false evidence

• 385. Fabricating false evidence punishable like perjury

• 386. Bringing fictitious action

• 387. Acknowledging or consenting to judgment, deed or recognizance on another's name without consent

• 388.   Deceiving Court or judicial officer by impersonation, false document, seal or signature

• 389. False interpretation

• 390. Interpreter liable for perjury

• 391. Making false sentence under oath

• 392. Aiding and abetting perjury

• 393. Perjury on capital crime

• 394. Perjury on trial for crime not capital

• 395. Perjury to defraud by personation

• 396.   Escaping, or permitting rescue or rescuing

• 397. Rescue for cause not crime. Rescuing thing in legal custody

• 398. Preventing execution of death sentence

• 399. Refusing or neglecting to aid in arrest or to prevent crime rescue or escape

• 400. Resisting lawful arrest for crime

• 401. Resisting or preventing arrest for cause not crime

• 402. Harbouring or aiding criminal

• 403. Definitions and special provisions

• 404. Breach of trust by public officer

• 405. Failure or refusal to deliver money or other property

• 406. Failure by public officer to pay or account for or produce money or property

• 407. False attestation or certificate by public officer

• 408.   Falsifying, etc., document by public officer

• 409. Furnishing false statement or return of money or property

• 410. Corruption of or by voter, or juror

• 411. Presumption of corruption of or by juror or voter

• 412. Accepting agreement or offering to accept bribe as to juror or voter

• 413. Corrupting or attempt to corrupt juror or voter

• 414. Corrupt agreement or offer by judicial officer or juror

• 415. Corrupt selecting of juror

• 416. Corruption by juror or voter

• 417. Extortion by public officials or jurors

• 418. Penalty for extortion by public officer or juror

• 419.   Violence to deter official or for recourse to public officer

• 420. Violence or deceit to hinder or obstruct public officer

• 421. Oppression by public officer or juror

• 422. Pretending to be public officer or juror

• 423. Refusal to serve in public office, if no punishment otherwise

• 424. Selling or trafficking in offices

• 425. False statements or oaths for obtaining or acting in office

• 426.   Assault on summary convictions

• 427. Assault by disguised person

• 428. Carrying cutlass, sword or machete otherwise than in a sheath

• 429. False claims generally

• 430. Punishment for false claims

• 431. Other false claims

• 432. Mutilating currency note

• 433. Possession of 5 or more false foreign notes

• 434. Unlawful possession of cattle or part thereof

• 435. Unlawful possession of fence, etc.

• 436. Unlawful possession of plant or plant product

• 437. Person taking possession of lost thing to deliver it to owner or to lawful authority

• 438. Unlawful possession of property of persons in vessels in distress or wrecked

• 439. Offering or exposing for sale property from vessels wrecked or in distress

• 440. Unlawful possession of property stolen elsewhere

• 441. Unlawful possession of property suspected to have been stolen

• 442. Stealing animal not cattle

• 443.   Stealing cattle or part thereof

• 444. Meaning of threat

• 445. Demand with threats intending to steal

• 446. Demand with threat of making complaint for summary offence

• 447. Stealing thing not exceeding $500 in value

• 448. Bonfire or fireworks in public place

• 449. Burning land

• 450. Burning land within 2 miles of town or settlement without notice or permission

• 451. Entering plantation with light, without consent, to hunt or for other purposes

• 452. Fires in city, town or vicinity

• 453. Interfering with public lamp

• 454. Giving, selling, or offering for sale poisonous grain or seed except for agriculture

• 455.   Detention of animal or vehicle. Veterinary treatment

• 456. Damage to fence, post, rail, wire, gate or the like

• 457. Damage to cultivated plant in garden, building or elsewhere

• 458. Damage to tree in park, garden or elsewhere

• 459. Damage to plant product

• 460. Damage to public way, water or work

• 461. Damage to statue, monument or work of art

• 462. Damage to telecommunication

• 463. Damage to toll-bar

• 464. Damage of no pecuniary value

• 465. Damage to land, animal or thing, not specially provided for

• 466. Conviction for trespass on charge of stealing or other dishonest appropriation

• 467. Detention of goods or documents to property not over $500 value

• 468. Detention or disposal of goods by employees

• 469. Taking or attempting to take cattle to ride, drive or otherwise use without consent

• 470. Taking on person or load by driver or conductor of vehicle without consent

• 471. Using or interfering with animal, boat, vehicle, etc. without authority

• 472. Posting bills, defacing buildings without consent, etc,

• 473. Soliciting alms in premises

• 474. Throwing things from premises into other premises

• 475.   Trespassing and squatting

• 476. Annoying insulting or threatening entry

• 477.   Summons to squatter

• 478. Trespassing on plantation

• 479. Right of way along customary path to village or settlement unaffected

• 480. Notice to abate nuisance due to animal, plant or thing

• 481. Proceedings and order and penalty

• 482. Nuisance from noxious or offensive business or matter

• 483. Throwing stone or other missile

• 484. Fouling public water

• 485. Non-construction, maintenance or obstruction, of public way

• 486. Animal treating, cleaning, feeding, etc., car washing and repairing in public places

• 487. Prohibition of articles and advertisements on and defacement of certain structures, etc.

• 488. Materials, not enclosed building materials or rubbish, in public place

• 489.   Offensive, annoying or injurious deposit in town

• 490. Offensive matter running into street or public place

• 491. Rubbish or other offensive matter put in public place

• 492. Shade or other projection on footway

• 493. Things for sale projecting into or over footway in city or town

• 494. Occupier to clean footway and watercourse adjoining his or her premises in city or town or vicinity

• 495.   Nuisance to public work

• 496. Selling, preparing or offering for sale unwholesome food or drink

• 497. Burial liability. Failure to bury corpse

• 498. Hindering burial of corpse

• 499. Mock burial

• 500. Disinterring, dissecting or tampering with corpse

• 501. Indecent gesture, act or nuisance

• 502. Naked or indecently clothed in public

• 503. Indecent exposure in public

• 504. Indecent books, pictures, shows, etc., in public

• 505. Obscene or profane writing on walls or the like open to public view

• 506. Sending or delivering obscene writing or print

• 507. Singing obscenely or profanely in public place

• 508. Swearing or using abusive or indecent language in public place

• 509. Molesting magistrate or justice or person employed by such

• 510. Complainant compounding, delaying or withdrawing summary charge without leave

• 511. Wasting of Police time

• 512. Accosting or following persons

• 513. Arrest of mentally disturbed persons

• 514. Following etc., vehicle without due consent

• 515. False advertisement of birth, marriage, divorce or death

• 516. False signature to petition, prospectus, testimonial

• 517. Disturbing peace by fighting

• 518. Fighting in public place

• 519. Loitering or the like in or about shop and not leaving quietly on request

• 520. Habitual loiterer

• 521. Mask wearing in public

• 522. Drunk and disorderly in public

• 523. Arrest of drunken person in public place, etc.

• 524. Habitual drunkenness

• 525. Permitting drunkenness, etc., or bad characters in place of public resort

• 526. Drunk or disorderly in liquor shop or place of public resort and not leaving on request

• 527.   Definition of “drunk”

• 528. Disorder or causing obstruction or annoyance in public place

• 529. Disorder in public view or hearing

• 530. Door knocking, bell pulling, or the like

• 531. Unseemly noise in public

• 532. Insult in public likely to provoke assault

• 533. Insulting gesture

• 534. Insulting, abusive, or profane language

• 535. Loud annoying language in public

• 536. Personalities, jeering, mocking

• 537. Calling a person names

• 538. Interference with assembly

• 539. Unlawful entry into a band

• 540. Offences relating to designated sporting events

• 541. Carrying arms unlawfully to cause terror

• 542. Intent to cause terror whereby harm or likelihood thereof caused

• 543. Threatening words or gestures

• 544. Threat of death by writing

• 545. Threat of harm with intent to put in fear

• 546. Interference with tools, etc., to coerce

• 547. Assembling in public place for unlawful purpose and not dispersing on request

• 548. Disturbance at habitual meeting place

• 549. Sounding or playing instrument near house after request to stop, or leave

• 550. Loudspeakers, etc. musical instruments

• 551. Restriction of operation of loudspeakers

• 552.   Notice to be given

• 553. Commissioner of Police to issue permit

• 554. Hours of holding public and political meetings

• 555. Modulation of loudspeakers

• 556. Regulations

• 557. Exemption

• 558. Proceedings for an offence

• 559. Definitions

• 560. Vagrant or idle or disorderly person

• 561. Annoyance in a public place

• 562.   Not maintaining relative in want

• 563. Rogue and vagabond

• 564. Incorrigible rogue

• 565. Warrant for arrest of vagrant, rogue and vagabond or incorrigible rogue

• 566. Irreverence near place of worship during service, or cemetery during burial

• 567. Disturbing person in place of worship

• 568. Disturbing minister, etc, at celebration in public

• 569. Annoyance not defined

• 570A. Rules by Chief Justice

• 570. Arrest without warrant

• 571. Use of force in making arrest, etc.

• 572. Arrest without warrant by any person

• 573. Person committing indictable offence

• 574. Person found committing offence against property

• 575. Person found in possession of property

• 576. Person offering property for sale, etc.

• 577. Warrant to arrest

• 578. Form and requisites of warrant

• 579. Copy to be kept by issuer

• 580. Issue and execution on Sunday and public holiday

• 581. Power to break and enter in execution of warrant

• 582. Possession of warrant by police officer

• 583. When justice of the peace may issue warrant

• 584. Bringing person arrested before Court

• 585. Proceedings when person arresting not police officer

• 586. Persons arrested without warrant to be taken to police station

• 587. Physical restraints

• 588. Searching person arrested

• 589. Intimation to and interview with legal practitioner

• 590. Savings as to arrest or detention under other laws

• 591. Definitions

• 592. Right to bail

• 593. Circumstances in which bail may be denied

• 594. Police bail

• 595. Detention of suspects during police investigations

• 596. Record of decision as to bail

• 597. Reasons for denying or refusing bail

• 598. Right to apply to the High Court for bail

• 599. Subsequent hearings for bail

• 600. Powers of the High Court in relation to bail

• 601. General provisions relating to bail

• 602. Restrictions on conditions of bail

• 603. Bail with sureties

• 604. Forfeiture of security

• 605. Indemnifying or agreeing to indemnify sureties

• 606. Absconding

• 607. Arrest for absconding etc.

• 608. Prosecution right of appeal

• 609. Bail after committal for trial

• 610. Bail during remand

• 611. Custody during remand

• 612. Correctional officer to produce accused during remand period

• 613. Adjournment before plea

• 614. Remand in absence of accused unable to appear

• 615. Remand by proper officer when Court unable to sit

• 616. Execution of warrant of commitment

• 617. Justice of the peace to issue search warrant

• 618. Search by direction and in presence of a magistrate

• 619. Duty to allow search

• 620. Search for and removal of persons wrongfully confined

• 621. Search for male or female suspected to be detained for immoral purposes

• 622. Issue of warrant to search for and seize and remove property

• 623. Seizure of things not specified

• 624. Information for search warrant

• 625. Time for execution of search warrant

• 626. Detention and disposal of property seized under search warrant

• 627. Disposal in case of counterfeit note or other thing

• 628. Disposal of forged bank-note, etc., taken under such warrant

• 629. Power to seize counterfeit notes

• 630. Warrant to enter and seize and to arrest in case of suspected brothel, etc.

• 631. Search, etc., on police report

• 632. Seizure of goods suspected liable to forfeiture

• 633. Powers and protection in case of search for explosive or dangerous thing

• 634. Report by police to Court as to property taken from accused

• 635. Order to seize property in case of suspected crime

• 636. Seizure and disposal of things suspected to be provided or prepared for committing crime

• 637. Search warrant

• 638. Entering vessel to detect or prevent crime

• 639. Search of vessel or conveyance for goods suspected to be liable to forfeiture, or smuggled

• 640. Court to order delivery of property to person apparently entitled

• 641. Order for delivery in case of pawned property

• 642. Order on conviction for restoration of property to or for owner

• 643. Power to order payment out of money taken from accused

• 644. Power to order restitution of property although no conviction

• 645. Provisions as to restitution additional to other enactments

• 646. Order denying access to information used to obtain any warrant

• 647. Director of Public Prosecutions dealing with indictable case summarily

• 648. Power to remit case to Magistrate

• 649. Director of Public Prosecutions to direct committal for trial if accused discharged

• 650. Director of Public Prosecutions to release accused on non-preferment of indictment

• 651. Director of Public Prosecutions to stay proceedings

• 652. Substitution of indictment by Director of Public Prosecutions

• 653. Conduct of police prosecutions

• 654. Definition of “Court”

• 655. Jurisdiction generally

• 656. Jurisdiction in receiving or unlawful possession

• 657. Bona fide question of title to land

• 658. Saving

• 659. Application of other procedure provisions to complaints

• 660. Transfer case to district court having jurisdiction

• 661. Complaint to commence proceedings

• 662. Complainants and defendants, who may be

• 663. oral complaint

• 664. Oath for complaint, when necessary

• 665. One matter of complaint

• 666. Complaint, how made

• 667. Description of offence

• 668. Specifying or negativing exception, etc., unnecessary

• 669. Value of property

• 670. Implication of statement that act is done contrary to an enactment

• 671. Period of limitation

• 672. Refusal to entertain complaints

• 673. Bringing up defendant in person

• 674. Issue and contents of summons

• 675. (Repealed by Act 11 of 2008)

• 676. Warrant instead of summons in first instance

• 677. Proof of previous conviction

• 678. Recording of evidence

• 679. Bringing up inmate to testify

• 680. Issue of summons to witness

• 681. (Repealed by Act 11 of 2008)

• 682. Warrant for witness disobeying summons or avoiding service

• 683. Warrant for witness in first instance, when

• 684. Bringing up arrested witness

• 685. Liability of witness to attend adjourned sitting

• 686. Power to adjourn in general

• 687. Power to amend a charge

• 688. Order if neither party appears

• 689. Powers of Court on non-appearance of complainant

• 690. Proceedings on non-appearance of defendant

• 691. Court, if parties appear, to hear complaint

• 692. Appearance in person or by counsel

• 693. Hearing of cross complaints or similar complaints together

• 694. (Repealed by Act 11 of 2008)

• 695. Objection to jurisdiction

• 696. Objection as to informality in summons or service

• 697. Objection as to mode of stating charge

• 698. Objection to defect of substance, or form, or variance

• 699. Variance as to time or place

• 700. Omissions and mis-statements

• 701. Powers of Magistrate as to defects or irregularities

• 702. Order against defendant admitting charge

• 703. Proceedings if “not guilty” Plea pleaded or partial plea not accepted

• 704. Notice of defence to complainant

• 705. Case and evidence for complainant

• 706. Caution to undefended defendant

• 707. Case and evidence for defendant

• 708. Evidence in reply

• 709. Placing witnesses out of Court

• 710. Dismissal or order against defendant

• 711. Remand for medical examination

• 712. Formal order of dismissal

• 713. Effect of conviction in part

• 714. Entry of minute of order against defendant

• 715. Offence charged — conviction for attempt

• 716. Attempt charged and offence proved — conviction

• 717. Complaint divisible

• 718. Fraudulent breach of trust and stealing

• 719. Court to be open and public generally

• 720. Right to appeal

• 721. Appeal against summary conviction of indictable offence

• 722. Right after notice of appeal to copies of proceedings

• 723. Suspension of execution during appeal

• 724. Notice of appeal

• 725. Notice of appeal by appellant in custody

• 726. Notice by clerk to respondent

• 727. Notice of grounds for appeal

• 728. Appellant or practitioner to sign notice of grounds of appeal

• 729. Particulars of grounds of appeal

• 730. Notice of special grounds

• 731. Entry of notice of reasons for appeal

• 732. Statutory grounds of appeal

• 733. Recognizance or other security by appellant

• 734. Transmission of appeal proceedings to Registrar

• 735. Sittings of Court of Appeal

• 736. Notice of appeal sitting to parties

• 737. No appeal to be heard within 21 days of order but by consent

• 738. Appearance in person or by counsel

• 739. Striking out appeal on non-appearance of appellant

• 740. Adjournment and terms thereof

• 741. General provisions as to hearing

• 742. Appellant bound by grounds in notice

• 743. Objections to grounds for appeal

• 744. Defects, variances, etc., when immaterial

• 745. Amendment of recognizance

• 746. Production of documents, exhibits, or other things

• 747. Appeal to be determined on record

• 748. Notice of application to adduce evidence at hearing

• 749. Evidence by affidavit

• 750. Examination of witness in appeal

• 751. Proceedings as to evidence on appeal

• 752. Inadmissible grounds of appeal

• 753. Appeals to be decided on merits

• 754. Powers of Court on appeal

• 755. Judgment on appeal final

• 756. Power of Court as to costs

• 757. Costs where appeal abandoned or withdrawn

• 758. Execution for appeal costs

• 759. Default of appearance by appellant

• 760. Transmission of appeal judgment to District Court

• 761. Power of magistrate to enforce appeal judgment

• 762. Publication of judgment reasons

• 763. Power of Magistrate to state case

• 764. Recognizance by applicant

• 765. Release of appellant

• 766. Transmission of case and notice of hearing

• 767. Saving as to right of appeal

• 768. Power of Director of Public Prosecutions to require case to be stated

• 769. Remission of case stated to magistrate. Hearing and procedure

• 770. Review of sentencing

• 771. Definition of “Court”

• 772. Summary trials generally. Power to adjourn and remand

• 773. Procedure

• 774. Complaint for offence triable either on indictment or summarily

• 775. Summary trial of complaint against adult for certain indictable offences

• 776. Reduction of charge from indictable to summary offence

• 777. Summary trial of child other than for murder

• 778. Summary trial of young person with his or her consent

• 779A. Pocedure

• 779. Proceedings in case of suspected offence

• 780. Proceedings in case of absconding accused

• 781. District in which to hold initial hearing

• 782. Power to transfer inquiry as to offence committed out of limit of jurisdiction

• 783. Order to bring up inmate for trial or inquiry

• 784. Warrant Instead of Summons

• 785. Issue and contents of summons

• 786. Service of summons generally

• 787. (Repealed by Act 11 of 2008)

• 788. Proof of service generally

• 789. Issue of warrant

• 790. Proceedings on arrest

• 791. Order to bring up inmate as witness

• 792. Issue and contents of summons to witness

• 793. Service and proof of service of, summons on witness

• 794. Warrant for witness disobeying summons or avoiding service

• 795. Warrant for witness in first instance

• 796. Witness arrested; How dealt with

• 797. Initial and Sufficiency Hearing

• 798. Sufficiency Hearing

• 799. (Repealed by Act 11 of 2008)

• 800. (Repealed by Act 11 of 2008)

• 801. Committal of Defendant

• 802. Discharge of Defendant

• 803. Bail or committal to correctional facility of accused

• 804. Transmission of documents to Registrar

• 805. NOTICE to Director of Public ProSecutions

• 806. (Repealed by Act 11 of 2008)

• 807. (Repealed by Act 11 of 2008)

• 808. (Repealed by Act 11 of 2008)

• 809. Mistake in caption

• 810. Sufficiency of statement of offence in count

• 811. Counts to be numbered

• 812. Unnecessary averments as to offence by bankrupt

• 813. Statement of intent to defraud, deceive or injure

• 814. Allegations for pretending as to enclosures in postal packets

• 815. Negativing exceptions or exemptions

• 816. Statement of means or instrument

• 817. Statement not needing proof

• 818. Qualifying allegations unnecessary

• 819. Statement of value

• 820. Inadmissible objection

• 821. Statements in alternative as in enactment lawful

• 822. Sufficiency of averment as to bank-note or note described as money

• 823. Sufficiency of averments charging fraud without details

• 824. Count for libel or selling or exhibiting publications

• 825. Count for perjury, etc. not invalid etc.

• 826. Exception

• 827. Description of accused

• 828. Description of document or thing

• 829. Statement of act, omission, place, thing, time

• 830. Description of property

• 831. Description of trade or other mark

• 832. Joining of counts, but murder alone to be charged

• 833. Charging any or all of several offences

• 834. Indictment for stealing

• 835. Election by prosecutor etc.

• 836. Joinder of persons

• 837. Power to order particulars and adjourn for purpose

• 838. Consideration of written statements or depositions on application

• 839. Charging previous convictions

• 840. Unnecessary to charge previous conviction. Competence to prove previous conviction

• 841. Indictments to be generally preferred by Director of Public Prosecutions

• 842. Charging offence disclosed by depositions

• 843. Signing of indictments

• 844. Filing of indictments

• 845. Service of copy of indictment

• 846. Statement and proof of overt acts

• 847. Documents to be served

• 848. Crown Book to be a record

• 849. Ordinary sittings

• 850. Special sitting

• 851. Proceedings on Sunday and other holiday

• 852. Procedure in indictable cases generally

• 853. Service of documents

• 854. Sheriff to aid Registrar as to service

• 855. Notice of objection or special plea and grounds

• 856. Objection and plea

• 857. Demurrer not allowed

• 858. Amendment of name of accused

• 859. Application to quash count not founded on depositions before Magistrate

• 860. Objection for formal defect

• 861. Objection that indictment is likely to prejudice or embarrass

• 862. Objection of substance or to jurisdiction

• 863. Objection without plea

• 864. Special defence

• 865. Special pleas

• 866. Autrefois acquit or convict and pardon pleaded together

• 867. Discharge of accused on plea of autrefois convict

• 868. Previous acquittal or conviction, a bar to charge with additions tending to increase punishment

• 869. Acquittal or conviction for murder a bar to second charge of manslaughter and vice versa

• 870. Use of deposition and Judge's notes to try plea of autrefois acquit or convict

• 871. Proceeding on pleas other than plea of guilty

• 872. Trial of fresh issues on pleas other than plea of not guilty

• 873. Trial to be on indictment

• 874. Trial to be by Judge and jury

• 875. Same procedure for all offences except treason

• 876. Non-appearance of accused

• 877. Forfeiture of recognizance of accused and sureties

• 878. Power to adjourn and directions to jury

• 879. Formal adjournment not necessary

• 880. Bail of accused or witnesses on adjournment

• 881. Defects, omissions, variances

• 882. Insertion, or change of count to meet plea

• 883. Terms and conditions of amendments

• 884. Correction of errors

• 885. Order to bring up inmate in custody for the other cause

• 886. Right of accused to have indictment read

• 887. Accused to appear and plead

• 888. Accused committed for sentence to plead

• 889. No pleading to previous conviction count. Exception

• 890. No plea in abatement

• 891. Competent pleas

• 892. Jury to find if accused capable to plead and take his or her trial

• 893. Giving accused in charge to jury

• 894. Deposition signed by magistrate to be evidence

• 895. Evidence at former trial similarly admissible

• 896. Evidence of possession of stolen property and of previous convictions

• 897. Jury to determine issues as to previous conviction

• 898. Previous conviction, how proved

• 899. Judge to take notes of evidence

• 900. Order to bring up inmate witness

• 901. Summons to witness

• 902. Service of summons to witness

• 903. Court to order prosecution to call witness

• 904. Court to dispense with production of medical or other witness

• 905. Witness for prosecution not previously examined

• 906. Witnesses to be outside Courtroom

• 907. Refractory witness

• 908. Disclosure by the prosecutor

• 909. Voluntary Disclosure by accused

• 910. Application by accused for disclosure

• 911. Continuing duty of prosecutor to disclose

• 912. Faults of disclosure by accused

• 913. Opening case and evidence for prosecution

• 914. Powers of Court at close of prosecution

• 915. Defence Counsel to declare intentions

• 916. Defence by counsel and caution to undefended accused

• 917. Opening of case and examining witnesses for defence

• 918. Reply for prosecution

• 919. Judge's duties and powers

• 920. Summing up by Judge

• 921. Jury's duties and powers

• 922. Consideration of verdict

• 923. Verdicts

• 924. Precautions against undue communication with jury during retirement

• 925. Qualification

• 926. Disqualification

• 927. Exemption from service

• 928. Disqualification or exemption when to be claimed

• 929. Judge may direct sheriff to strike name

• 930. Aliens as jurors

• 931. Preliminary List

• 932. Publication of list

• 933. Revision of list

• 934. Magistrate to certify and transmit to Registrar copy of list

• 935. Appeal

• 936. The Juror's Book

• 937. Summoning of jurors

• 938. Only one person to be summoned from each place of business

• 939. Omission of juror believed absent or dead

• 940. Presumption of regularity and lawfulness of panel

• 941. Copy of panel to be delivered to Registrar

• 942. Service of summons to juror

• 943. Order to summon tales on exhaustion of panel

• 944. Summoning of jury for adjourned sitting on discharge of jury for non-agreement

• 945. Calling jurors to empanel a jury

• 946. Drawing a jury

• 947. Trial of successive issues by same jury

• 948. Number of jury

• 949. Counting and swearing of jury

• 950. Swearing of jury collectively

• 951. Jury to be sworn to give true verdict

• 952. Election of foreperson

• 953. Alternate jurors

• 954. Challenge to the panel, when to be made

• 955. Grounds, etc. of challenge to the panel

• 956. Challenge to the polls

• 957. Grounds and mode of challenge for cause

• 958. Trial of challenge for cause

• 959. Peremptory challenges

• 960. Joining or severing challenges on trial of several persons

• 961. Tales

• 962. Power of Court to discharge jury without verdict

• 963. Procedure where juror dies, becomes incapable or is absent

• 964. Power of Court to discharge non-neutral juror, sworn or not

• 965. Right of summoned jurors to fees on attendance

• 966. Registrar's discretion as to fees

• 967. Limitation of juror's claim for payment

• 968. Return by Registrar of payments

• 969. Fine on juror for non-attendance, etc.

• 970. Fine on juror refusing to serve, etc.

• 971. Power of Judge to reduce or remit fine

• 972. Levy by distress and sale on non-payment of fine

• 973. Accommodation, custody and refreshment of jury

• 974. Power of Court to discharge or release juror

• 975. View by jury

• 976. Directions to prevent undue communication with jurors

• 977. Irregularity as to jury not to invalidate

• 978. Delivery and recording of verdict

• 979. Verdict on each count generally. Questions to jury

• 980. Rectifying verdict

• 981. Discharge of accused on acquittal

• 982. Verdict on charge of attempt

• 983. Offence charged — conviction for another

• 984. Offence charged — conviction for attempt

• 985. Count divisible

• 986. Verdict where offence causing specific result charged

• 987. Conviction for offence charged although proved to be included in another offence

• 988. Verdict on charge of murder or manslaughter

• 989. Verdict on charge of assault to murder or with intent

• 990. Verdict where procuring offence charged

• 991. Verdict on charge of rape, etc.

• 992. Verdict on charge of robbery

• 993. Verdict on charge of stealing, etc.

• 994. Verdict on joint charges of stealing or handling

• 995. Verdict on charge against 2 or more persons for handling

• 996. Power to direct return of special verdict

• 997. General verdict of guilty or not guilty in libel

• 998. Inspection of depositions and exhibits by accused

• 999. Alloctus

• 1000. Motion in arrest of judgment

• 1001. Sentence at same or future sitting

• 1002. Power to reserve decision on questions raised at trial

• 1003. Validity of proceedings

• 1004. Sentence by any Judge

• 1005. Evidence as to proper sentence

• 1006. Sentence on verdict of guilty on several counts

• 1007. Sentence of death not to be passed on pregnant women

• 1008. No jury de ventre inspiciendo

• 1009. Error not allowed

• 1010. Reserve of question of law

• 1011. Warrant for execution of sentence

• 1012. Presence of accused at trial

• 1013. Power to clear Court

• 1014. Proceedings in camera

• 1015. Directions as to separate trials

• 1016. Motion by accused for discharge on failure to prosecute

• 1017. Withdrawal of counts after conviction on one or more

• 1018. Issue of mentally abnormal on or before arraignment

• 1019. Special verdict if jury finds that accused was mentally ill at time of offence

• 1020. Person found mentally ill may be detained at Governor General's pleasure

• 1021. Court to remit summary case to Magistrate or to try it

• 1022. High Court to release person in illegal custody

• 1023. High Court on application by way of habeas corpus or the like

• 1024. Order appealed from not to be removed

• 1025. Want of form not to nullify order. Warrant of commitment not void for defect

• 1026. Validity of proceeding in summary trials of indictable offences

• 1027. Validity of proceeding despite defects

• 1028. Matters within section 1027

• 1029. High Court to quash conviction, order, etc.

• 1030. Objection as to no evidence of notice, proclamation etc. inadmissible

• 1031. Validity of proceedings tried and decided on the merits

• 1032. Improper admission or rejection of evidence

• 1033. Warrants of commitment valid if order good

• 1034. Qualification of accused, when presumed

• 1035. Age from appearance, presumption

• 1036. Proof of conviction

• 1037. Mode of proving note false

• 1038. Difference as to date, year or legend on note immaterial

• 1039. Court to cut in pieces and dispose of false note

• 1040. Defamation presumption of publication

• 1041. Presumption of validity of deposition

• 1042. Proof of intent to deceive or defraud

• 1043. Presumption from things found in betting-house

• 1044. Presumption of use of place as betting-house

• 1045. Proof of play for money, wager, or stake unnecessary

• 1046. Comparison of disputed handwriting

• 1047. Presumption as to identity

• 1048. Evidence of relationship on trial of incest

• 1049. Presumption in prosecutions for offences respecting liquor

• 1050. Presumption of nationality or race from appearance

• 1051. Presumption of nationality of ships

• 1052. Proof of false testimony by certificate

• 1053. Mode of proof of seal or stamp used for public revenue or post office

• 1054. Presumption from entries of receipt of money by public officer or clerk or servant

• 1055. Proof of service or execution

• 1056. Proof of statutes, records, documents or other writings

• 1057. Proof of document not disputed unnecessary

• 1058. Admissibility of unstamped documents

• 1059. No proof of unnecessary averment

• 1060. Power of Court to order prosecution for perjury in proceeding before it

• 1061. Duty of magistrate

• 1062. Service of charge on accused

• 1063. Proceedings against associations, companies, etc.

• 1064. Testamentary instrument

• 1065. Document of title to land

• 1066. Property of a successor

• 1067. Property leased

• 1068. Property for religious worship

• 1069. Uncertainty of ownership of property belonging to several persons

• 1070. Property of several persons

• 1071. Property belonging to corporate body

• 1072. Sufficiency of statement of name or title of company or partnership

• 1073. Use of collective name sufficient

• 1074. Property as owned by inhabitants of State, district, town or village

• 1075. Property in public places need not belong to any person

• 1076. Description of property in charge against public servants

• 1077. Description of property belonging to Government

• 1078. Description of property as belonging to public officer or commissioner

• 1079. Power to enlarge time

• 1080. Conditions of adjournment or amendment

• 1081. Mode of trial when none prescribed

• 1082. Trial of aliens

• 1083. Procedures in cases not provided for

• 1084. Forms

• 1085. Tariffs of fees

• 1086. Extent of jurisdiction

• 1087.Liability for act done partly beyond jurisdiction

• 1088. Act when punishable

• 1089. Conviction essential before punishment

• 1090. Punishment not to be double

• 1091. Prosecution and punishment under one or more enactments

• 1092. Several acts respecting one person or thing, each of which is a crime

• 1093. Liability to increased punishment on subsequent conviction

• 1094. Indictable offence

• 1095. Summary offence

• 1096. Restrictions on the imposition of custodial sentences

• 1097. Length of custodial sentences

• 1098. Procedural requirements for custodial sentences

• 1099. Additional requirements in the case of mentally disordered offenders

• 1100. Saving for mitigation and mentally disordered offenders

• 1101. Effect of previous convictions etc.

• 1102. General judicial guidelines

• 1103. Sentencing Guidelines

• 1104. Punishment may not be less than minimum

• 1105. Pronouncement of sentence

• 1106. Modification of sentence

• 1107. Running of sentences

• 1108. Orders of Court in cases other than for payment of money where no mode of enforcement prescribed

• 1109. Terms of orders in usual cases

• 1110. Conviction on verdict, confession or plea

• 1111. Terms of death sentence

• 1112. Statement of time or place of execution in sentence immaterial

• 1113. Court not to fix date for execution. Judge's report to Governor General

• 1114. Place and time of execution

• 1115. The Minister to appoint burial place

• 1116. Officers to direct and be present at execution

• 1117. Presence of justice and relatives of inmate

• 1118. Proceedings after execution of death sentence

• 1119. Inquest and duties of the coroner

• 1120. Documents to be forwarded to Minister

• 1121. False certificate or declaration

• 1122. Omissions not to invalidate execution

• 1123. Imprisonment not to be less than minimum

• 1124. Commencement of imprisonment on conviction before High Court

• 1125. Commencement of imprisonment on summary conviction

• 1126. Computation of imprisonment

• 1127. Computation of imprisonment in case of escape

• 1128. Reduction of imprisonment on part payment

• 1129. Termination of imprisonment on payment or levy

• 1130. Commitment implied on pronouncement of sentence

• 1131. Order or extract thereof sufficient warrant

• 1132. Power to issue warrant of commitment on default of payment

• 1133. Delivery of warrant and person named therein to correctional officer

• 1134. Detention in approved places

• 1135. Consequences on sentence for 3 years or more

• 1136. Definition

• 1137. Establishment of Parole Board

• 1138. Functions of the Board

• 1139. Parole Committee

• 1140. Eligibility of parole

• 1141. Grant of parole

• 1142. Parole order

• 1143. Suspension of Parole

• 1144. Revocation of Parole

• 1145. Effect of suspension or revocation of parole

• 1146. Chairman to issue warrant recalling parolee, in the public interest

• 1147. Forfeiture of parole

• 1148. Certificate to be sent to Board

• 1149. Re-application

• 1150. Parole and remission of sentence

• 1151. Computation of sentence

• 1152. Termination of parole

• 1153. Assignment of parole officers

• 1154. Offences

• 1155. Regulations

• 1156. Definition

• 1157. Probation Orders

• 1158. Duration and requirement of probation order

• 1159. Damages and compensation

• 1160. Security for good behaviour

• 1161. Breach of requirement of probation order

• 1162. Commission of further offence

• 1163. Effects of probation

• 1164. Amendment of probation order

• 1165. Review of probation order

• 1166. Discharge of probation order

• 1167. When probationer must appear

• 1168. Copies of amending and discharging orders

• 1169. Supervising probation officer

• 1170. Duties of probation officers

• 1171. Contributions towards institutions

• 1172. Appointments

• 1173. Rules

• 1174. Persons eligible to serve extra mural sentence

• 1175. Extra mural sentence to be served during working hours under control of Director of Correctional Services

• 1176. Director of Correctional Services to report defaulters to the Court

• 1177. Curfew orders

• 1178. Electronic monitoring of curfew orders

• 1179. Orders combining probation with extra mural order, or probation with curfew

• 1180. Application of relevant law to constituent parts of combination orders

• 1181. Dismissal with reprimand

• 1182. Absolute and conditional discharge

• 1183. Commission of further offence by person conditionally discharged

• 1184. Suspended sentences

• 1185. Subsequent offence during operational period

• 1186. Discovery of further offence

• 1187. Appropriation of fines and other money to use of State

• 1188. Power to sell or dispose of non-pecuniary forfeitures

• 1189. Levy as in civil actions on conviction for defamation

• 1190. Alternative powers in general

• 1191. Extension of time for payment of adjudged sum

• 1192. Periodical payments through office of Court or specified person

• 1193. Postponement of issue of warrant of commitment for non-payment

• 1194. Searching person ordered to pay money

• 1195. Fine or penalty may not be less than minimum

• 1196. Additional fines in indictable cases

• 1197. Substitutional fines in indictable cases

• 1198. High Court to fine or commit for contempt

• 1199. Imprisonment for non-payment of fine, etc.

• 1200. Fixing amount of fine

• 1201. Restrictions on power to impose imprisonment on conviction

• 1202. Scale of imprisonment for non-payment of sums adjudged

• 1203. Warrant to arrest person etc. about to leave State

• 1204. Procedure to determine compensation or liability

• 1205. Compensation and costs where several persons are convicted

• 1206. Recovery of amount of costs or compensation

• 1207. Effect of satisfaction or compensation

• 1208. Saving of right of civil action

• 1209. Referring claimant to civil remedy

• 1210. Order for compensation on conviction for indictable offence

• 1211. Order for costs on conviction for indictable offence

• 1212. Order of costs against private prosecutor on charge of defamation

• 1213. Order against complainant to pay costs or compensation

• 1214. Imprisonment of complainant in default of payment of compensation or costs

• 1215. Order against defendant to pay compensation

• 1216. Order for costs against defendant

• 1217. Imprisonment of defendant for non-payment of costs

• 1218. Remission of fees

• 1219. Costs on application for order for periodical payment of money

• 1220. Return of costs from Treasury in certain cases

• 1221. Cases in which distress leviable

• 1222. Issue and formalities of warrant of distress

• 1223. Cases in which distress may be refused

• 1224. Detention or release of offender during distress proceedings

• 1225. Persons authorised to execute distress

• 1226. Power of entry to execute distress

• 1227. Property available for distress

• 1228. Property exempted from distress

• 1229. Sale of distress

• 1230. Time within which distress to be sold

• 1231. Duties of person executing warrant

• 1232. Account of costs and charges of distress

• 1233. Penalty

• 1234. Opposition to levy or on proceeds of sale

• 1235. Ranking and distribution of claims

• 1236. Satisfaction of distress

• 1237. Decision of disputes respecting distress or sale

• 1238. Power to order imprisonment if distress insufficient

• 1239. Powers of district court to bind persons for good behaviour

• 1240. Binding parties to be of good behaviour

• 1241. Power of Court to order person convicted to enter into recognizance to keep the peace

• 1242. Imprisonment in default

• 1243. Deposit in lieu of surety

• 1244. Forfeiture and enforcement of recognizance in the District Court

• 1245. Registrar's duty as to recognizance on default

• 1246. Sheriff to summon defaulters

• 1247. Hearing and power to remit or enforce

• 1248. Writ of execution and proceedings thereon

• 1249. Custody of person arrested

• 1250. Execution against surety of person bailed and failing to appear

• 1251. Revision of orders in cases of committal for want of sureties

• 1252. Remission by Governor General

• 1253. Remission by High Court

• 1254. Remission by Cabinet

• 1255. Discharge of person imprisoned on payment of fine

• 1256. Release from further criminal proceedings on payment, discharge or satisfaction otherwise

• 1257. Protection of certain persons from damages for acts done or other proceedings under Code

• 1258. Power of Cabinet to award part of fine

• 1259. Order against parent or guardian on conviction of child

• 1260. Saving of certain laws and powers

• 1261. Punishment not to be double

• 1262. Saving of Royal Prerogatives

• 1263.Saving of civil remedies

• 1264. Repeals

• Schedule 1

• Schedule 2

• Schedule 3

• Schedule 4

• Schedule 5

• Schedule 6

• Schedule 8