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CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX to the Ordinances, Orders in Council, Governor's Orders, Rules and Proclamations of Sierra Leone and Orders of the King in Council affecting Sierra Leone passed during the year 1929. (Note.-The titles of enactments which are no longer operative are printed in italics.) ORDINANCES. SSubject Date nt. Remark Subject. i Remarks. S e Commencement. z I P- Customs (Amendment) Arms and Ammunition (Amendment) Explosives (Amendment) Pensions European Officers (Amendment) 5 Destructive Pests (Amendment) 6 Native Produce (Amendment) 7 Aliens Naturalization and Acquisi- tion of Property (Amendment) 1 25 May, 1929 25 May, 1929 6 25 May, 1929 9 25 May, 1929 13 15 June, 1929 14 1 January, 1929 16 15 June, 1929 Amends Cap. 49 by insertion of new section after sec- tion 62 ; also repeals section 151. Amends sections 7 (1), 10, 23, Sche- ules E and J of Cap. 11 ; also repeals Ordinance No. 5 of 1927. Repeals and replaces sections 4 and 16 of Cap. 62; amends sections 9 and 10, and inserts new section 14A. Amends Cap. 146, sections 2, 7, 9 and 13 and inserts new section-17A. Amends Eection 6 of Cap. 53. Amends Ordinance No. 16 of 1928. Amends section 11 and repeals and replaces sections 11A and 13A of Cap. 4, as amended by Ordinance No. 10 of 1928. '' ORDINANCES--continued. 5 Subject. 8 Freetown Municipality Officers' Superanuation 9 West African Court of Appeal (Civil Cases) 10 West African Court of Appeal (Criminal Cases) 11 Protectorate Courts Jurisdiction (Amendment) 12 Crown Land Conservancy (Amend- mont) 13 Public Transport Services (Amend- ment) 14 Coroners (Amendment) 15 Liquor Licence (Amendment) 16 Forestry (Amendment) 17 Pensions (Widows and Orphans (Amendment) 18 Public Officers Gurantee Fund (Amendment) 19 Auditor Pensions 20 Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) (Amendment) 21 Civil Marriage (Amendment) 22 (1930) Appropriation 19 27 29 37 39 41 43 47 49 52 53 55 57 59 61 Date of Date of Commencement. 1 June, 1929 1 March, 1930 10 March, 1930 15 June, 1929 15 June, 1929 15 June, 1929 1 July, 1929 1 July, 1929 1 January, 1929 9 December, 1929 9 December, 1929 December, 1929 December, 1929 9 December, 1929 1 January, 1930 Remarks. Repeals Part XI of. and Schedule to Cap. 205. Inserts new section 17A to Cap. 169. Amends sections 5 and 8 of Cap. 45. Amends section 3 of Ordinance No. 29 of 1928 and inserts new sec- tion 5A. Amends Cap. 40 sections 7, 15. 34, First and Second Schedules: inserts new sections 9A. 9B, 9c and 38A and repeals sections 35, 36 and 37. Amends sections 7, 25 and 27 of SCap. 111. Inserts new heading and section after section 15 of Cap. 74. Amends section 27 of Cap. 148 as amended by No. 33 of 1926. Amends sections 17, 25 (b) and repeals and replaces sec- tion 21 of Cap. 177. Repeals and replaces section 12 of Cap. 119. Amends Schedule E to Cap. 29. Temporary. -----~ ORDINANCES-continued. Subject. Interpretation (Amendment) Arms and Ammunition (No. 2) (Amendment) 25 (1928) Supplementary Appropriation 71 26 Trade Marks (Amendment) 73 27 Palm Wine (Amendment) 28 Births and Deaths Registration (Amendment) 29 West African Court of Appeal (Civil Cases) (Amendment). 30 Education Ordinance Date of Commencement. 1 January, 1930 9 December, 1929 9 December, 1929 9 December, 1929 9 December, 1929 1 July, 1930 1 March, 1930 21 December, 1929 Remarks. Amends Cap. 103. Amends sections 2, 7 (1) (c), 10, 11 (2), 12, 13, 14 (3), 16, 18, 30 of, and Schedules F and K to Cap. 11; repeals and replaces sec- tion 17 and Sche- dule H; repeals sub-sections (2) and (3) of section 22, and adds new Schedule J thereto. Spent. Repeals andreplaces section 57 of Cap. 209; repeals section 4 of, and amends Schedule to Cap. 210. Amends sections 5 (I) and 19 of rdifiance No. 41 of 1926. Makes various amendments in Cap. 16: amends sections 2 and 8 of Cap. 89; also amends Cap. 21. Amends sections 2 and 3 of Ordi- nance No. 9 of 1929, and inserts new sections 3A and 6A thereto. Repeals Cap. 55. ORDERS IN COUNCIL. dSubject. Date of SSubject Commencement. Remarks. 1 Registration of Boats 123 2 February,. 1929 Deletes Schedule A to Ordinance No. 11 of 1927. 2 Minerals 124 1 March, 1929 Revoked by Order No. 24 of 1929. 3 Public Transport Services 125 11 February, 1929 ORDERS IN COUNCIL-continued. Subject. Destructive Pests Destructive Pests (Citrus Banana Plants) and 129 Scale Pest (Amendment) Protectorate Administrative Divi- sions (Amendment) Public Holidays Gum Copal (Export Prohibition) Customs (Import and Export. List) (Amendment) 11 Prisons (Protectorate) 12 Passport Protectorate (Administrative Divi- sions) (Amendment) (No. 2) 14 Forestry (Amendment) 15 Dangerous Drugs 16 Explosives (Protectorate) Customs Tariff Date of Commencement. 16 February, 1929 16 February, 1929 16 February, 1929 1 March. 1929 16 March, 1929 13 April. 1929 1 May, 1929 27 April, 1929 27 April, 1929 1 June. 1929 25 May, 1929 25 May. 1929 27 May, 1929 8 June, 1929 Remarks. Revokes Destruc- tive Pests Order in Council, 1924. Amends section 2 of Scale Pest Order in Council, 1924. Amends Schedule B to Order No. 13 of 1926 as amended by Nos. 7. 10 and 25 of 1928. Spent. Revokes Order No. 18 of 19-28. Amends Schedule to Order No. 15 of 19-26. Revokes Order No. 14 of 1928. Amends Schedule to Cap. 143. Amends Schedule B to Order No. 13 of 1926 as amended by Nos. 7. 10, 25 of 19-28 and 7 of 1929. Amends Part III and IV of Sche- dule to Cap. 74, and also section 3 of Forests (Timber in Res- tricted Areas) Order in Council. 19-24. Applies Part V of Ordinance No. 10 of 1926 to certain drugs. Applies sections 2 to 10. 14A and 16 of Cap. 62 to the Protectorate. Amends First Sche- dule to Cap. 50. ___ ORDERS IN COUNCIL-continued. Subject. Prisons (Bonthe) Pensionable Offices Bombay Street Market Freetown Waterworks (Prescribed Waterworks Area) Burials Registration (Search Fee) Public Holidays No. 2 Minerals (No. 2) Freetown Improvement (Part V Application) qi 146 147 157 158 160 161 162 163 Date of Commencement. 27 July, 1929 21 September, 1929 15 April, 1927 12 October, 1929 12 October, 1929 26 October, 1929 16 November, 1929 9 December, 1929 Remarks. Revokes Order No. 20 of 1928. Amends Schedule to Cap. 21. Spent. Revokes Order No. 2 of 1929. Extends application of Part V of Cap. 79. GOVERNOR'S ORDERS. 6 Subject. 1 Bathurst Gambia Quarantine (No. 3) 165 (Revocation) 2 Monrovia, Republic of Liberia, 166 Quarantine (Revocation) 3 Quarantine (Monrovia, Republic of 167 Liberia) 4 Bush Fire Prevention (Protective 168 Belts) (Protectorate) (Amendment) 5 House Tax (Colony) (Exemption) 169 6 Dakar Quarantine 170 7 Kambia Town 171 8 Port Loko Town 173 9 Freetown Explosives Magazine 175 (Revocation) 10 Quarantine (Monrovia, Republic of 176 Liberia) 11 Yonibana Town 177 12 Collector of Customs, Kambia 179 (Delegation of Powers) Remarks. Revokes Order No. 23 of 1928. Revokes Order No. 24 of 1928. Amends Schedule to Order No. 17 of 1924. Temporary. Revokes Order No. 1 of 1923. Revokes Order No. 30 of 1924. Revokes Freetown Explosives Maga- zine Order, 1924. Date of Commencement. 16 February, 1929 16 February, 1929 9 March, 1929 27 April, 1929 18 May, 1929 25 May, 1929 14 September, 1929 14 September, 1929 21 September, 1929 21 September, 1929 12 October, 1929 4 January, 1930 __ 1 RULES. Subject. 1 Raw Opium 2 Wild Game (Amendment) 3 Public Transport Services 4 Royal West African Frontier Force (Medals and Decorations) 5 Dangerous Drugs 6 General Minerals (Amendment) Registration of United Kingdom 205 Designs (Fees) Court Messengers (Amendment) 207 Customs Drawback (Amendment) 209 General (No. 2) Minerals (Amendment) 210 Pensions (European (Amendment) Pensions (Europeans (Amendment) (No. 2) Officers) 211 Officers) 213 13 Explosives Customs (Marking of Imported Merchandise) General Minerals (Amendment) (No. 3) Date of Commencement. Z 1 February, 1929 2 February. 1929 11 February, 1929 9 March. 1929 1 February, 1929 16 March. 1929 27 April, 1929 11 May, 1929 18 May. 1929 25 May, 1929 1 January, 1928 1 April, 1927 8 June, 1929 1 October, 1929 22 June, 1929 Remarks. Inserts new heading and rule 16A to Schedule VII of Cap. 238. Amended by Rules No. 19 of 1929. Revokes Rules No. 9 of 1928. Amends rules 13 (1), 13 (9), 52 and Form XI in first Schedule to Rules No. 13 of 1928. Amends Schedule A to Cap. 42. Amends rule 2 of -the Customs Drawback Rules, 1924. Amends rule 13 of Rules No. 13 of 1928. Inserts rule 2A and amends rules 8 and 21 of Schedule to Cap. 146. Repeals rule 3. repeals and re- places rules 6, 17, 18 and 19 of First Schedule to Cap. 146; also amends rule 11 and adds new Schedule thereto. Revokes the Explo- sives (Importa- tion) Rules. 1924. Amends rules 13 (7) and 54 (1) of Rules No. 13 of 1928. __ RULES-continued. Subject. 16 Dangerous Drugs (No. 2) Dangerous Drugs (Benzoyl-Mor- phine) Palm Wine (Transfer Fee) Public Trm.nsport Services (Amend- ment) Sherbro ment) Judicial District Amend- 247 21 Christian Marriage (Search Fees) 22 Motor Traffic (Local) Register 249 Railway (Coaching Tariff) (Amend- ment) Railway (Goods Tariff) (Amend- ment) Registration of Births and Deaths (Search Fee) Date of Commencement. 22 June, 1929 22 June, 1929 31 August, 1929 31 August, 1929 1 October, 1929 12 October, 1929 12 October, 1929 19 October, 1929 255 19 October, 1929 9 December, 1929 Remarks. Extends the applica- tion of Rules No. 5 of 1929 to certain medical prepara- tions. Revokes and replaces rule 25 of Rules No. 3 of 1929. Amends rule 4 of Sherbro Judicial District Rules, 1924 as amended by No. 31 of 1926; also revokes and replaces rule 5 thereof. Amends Schedule B to Cap. 25. Revokes Rules No. 2 of 1928; amended by Rules No. 2 of 1930. Amends rules 16 (1) (d), 23, 30, 36, 50 (4), 76 and 85 of the Railway Coaching Tariff Rules, 1924, as amended by Rules Nos. 19 and 27 of 1926, 2 of 1927, and 6 of 1928; revokes and replaces rule 24 and revokes rules 31(3), 34 (2), 35(2), 50 (6) and 86. Amends rules 19 (1) (b) and (c), 58 (1), 59, 66, Schedules B, C, H, I of the Railway (Goods Tariff) Rules, 1924; also revokes rules 19 (2), 62, 63, 64 and 65. Amends Schedule N to Cap. 16. RULES-continued. SSubject. W Commencement.emarks 26 Pensions (European Officers) 260 9 December. 1929 Amends Schedule I (Amendment) (No. 3) to Cap. 146 as amended by Rules No. 12 of 1929 27 Public Health (Protectorate) 261 14 December. 192 28 Railway (Coaching Tariff) (Amend- 273 14 December. 1929 Revokesindreplaces ment) (No. 2) rule 36 of Railway (Coaching Taridf) Rules. 1924. PROCLAMATIONS. SSubject. Date of Remarks. z;r Commencement. 1 Maintenance Orders (Facilities for 275 2 February. 1929 Enforcement) (Territory for the Seat of Government of the Com- monwealth of Australia) 2 Sierra Leone (Legislative Council) 277 16 March. 1929 Amendment Order in Council. 1928 (Date of Commencement) 3 Maintenance Orders (Facilities for 279 1 June, 1929 Enforcement) (Gibraltar) 4 Ass.umption of the Administration of 281 21 April. 1929 Spent. the Colony by His Excellency M. A. Youinq 5 Prorogation of the Legislative 283 2 November. 1929 Spent. Council (Fifth Session) 6 Legislative Council (Date of Cor- 284 9November, 1929 Spent. mencement of Sixth Session) ORDERS OF THE KING IN COUNCIL AND ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS, ETC. 5 S t I' Commencement. 1 Additional Instructions passed 288 20 March. 1929 Repealsandreplaces under the Royal Sign manual and Clause IV of In- Signet to the Governor and Con- struction of 28th meander in Chief of the Colony of January. 1924. Sierra Leone respecting the Constitution of the Executive Council 2 Air Navigation (Colonies, Pro- 287 1 April, 1929 tectorates and Mandated Ter- ritories) (Amendment) 3 Sierra Leone (Legislative Council) 297 20 March, 1929 Substitutes ne w Amendment Order in Council, article 5 of Order 1928 in Council of 16th January. 1924. Customs (Amendment) Ordinance, 1920. COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 1 of 1929. In His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this twenty- third day of May, 1929. M. A. YOUNG, Acting Governor. rnm AN ORDINANCE to Amend the Customs cap.49 Ordinance, 1924. Date of (25th May, 1929.) commence- ment BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of the Colony of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :- 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Customs (Amendment) Short title Ordinance, 1929. 2. The Customs Ordinance, 1924, is hereby amended by the Amendment insertion of the following section after section sixty-two:- of Cap. 49 by insertion of new see. "62A. (1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council after sec. 62 to make rules prohibiting the importation of any Power of specified goods or classes of goods, or of any specified Governor in goods or classes of goods packed in particular kinds of Council to receptacles, unless such goods or their receptacles or make rules both (according as such rules may provide) are clearly t the mark- and legibly marked with such information as such ing of rule? may require as to the number, measure or net imported weiglit at the time of shipment of such goods or the goods packages of such goods. ____131_C___1__*___P_23__j~_~ ~Cs cp ~t- No. 1 of 1929. Customs (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. (2) No rules made bj the Governor in Council under this section shall come into force before the same have been approved by the Legislative Council. (3) The Legislative Council may amend any rules made by the Governor in Council under this section or may substitute other rules instead thereof. Rules so amended or substituted shall be deemed to have been made by the Governor in Council and to have been approved by the Legislative Council. (4) Any goods or receptacles which are not clearly and legibly marked in accordance with the provisions of any rules made under this section shall be deemed to be goods the importation of which is absolutely prohibited under the last preceding section, and the provisions of the said section shall apply accordingly." Repeal of 3. Section one hundred and fifty-one of the Customs sec. 151 of Ordinance, 1924, is hereby repealed. Cap. 49 Passed in the Legislative Council this twenty-third day of May, in the year of Our Lord One thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative councill . THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.P.C. 10129. Arms and Ammunition (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 2 of 1929. In His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this twenty- third day of May, 1929. M. A. YOUNG, Acting Governor. AN ORDINANCE to Amend the Arms and Cap. n Ammunition Ordinance, 1924. Date of com- (25th May, 1929.) mDae mnt BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of the Colony of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :- 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Arms and Ammunition Short title (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. 2. Sub-section (1) of section seven of the Arms and Amendment Ammunition Ordinance, 1924, shall be amended- of sec. 7 of Cap. 11 (a) by substituting in paragraph (b) for the words by permit to purchase or use ammunition" the words "under this Ordinance or the Explosives Ordinance 1924, to purchase, keep, sell, store or use ammunition," Cap. 62 and (b) by inserting in paragraph (d) between the words authorityy or licence and the words any arms" the words "granted under this Ordinance or the Cap. 62 Explosives Ordinance, 1924." No. 2 of 1929. Arms and Ammunition (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. 3. Section ten of the Arms and Ammunition Ordinance, 1924, shall be amended by re-numbering sub-section 3 (a) as sub-section (3), by deleting the figure, brackets and letter 3 (b)", Cap. 62 and by inserting after sub-section (3) and before the paragraph Amendment beginning with the words Every firearm" the following three of sec. 10 of sub-sections :- Cap. 11 No. 5 of 1927 "(4) In the case of ammunition only, for persons who Cap. 62 are licensed under the Explosives Ordinance, 1924, to keep or sell explosives. (5) In the case of ammunition only, for any company or individual- (a) who is the holder of a mining lease, mining right No. 36 of or exclusive prospecting licence granted under 1927 the Minerals Ordinance, 1927. or of any concession contemplated by paragraph (b) of section sixty- nine of the said Ordinance, or (b) who is the applicant for a mining lease or mining right to whom permission to mine has been granted under section nineteen of the said Ordinance, or (c) who is an applicant for an exclusive prospecting licence under the said Ordinance, and who satisfies the prescribed authority, and affords guarantees which such authority deems sufficient, that such company or individual requires the ammunition for mining or prospecting purposes on the area of the lease, right, licence or concession or on the area specified in the application for the lease, right or licence, as the case may be, and that such ammunition is going to be conveyed with all expedition to a magazine which has been duly licensed as a mine magazine in accordance with Cap. 62 rules made under the Explosives Ordinance, 1924. (6) In the case of ammunition only, for an individual who is the holder of a prospecting right granted under No. 36 of the Minerals Ordinance, 1927. who satisfies the 1927 prescribed authority, and affords guarantees which such authority deems sufficient, that he requires the ammunition for prospecting purposes." Amendment 4. Sub-section (3) of section twenty-three of the Arms and of sec.,23 of Ammunition Ordinance, 1924, shall be amended by substituting Cap. 11 in paragraph (b) for the words "to whom a permit for the purchase or use of ammunition has been granted" the words "to any ammunition in the possession of persons authorized Cap. 62 under this Ordinance or the Explosives Ordinance, 1924, to purchase, keep, sell, store or use such ammunition." No. 2 of Arms and Ammunition (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. 1929. 5. Schedule E to the Arms and Ammunition Ordinance, 1924, Amendment shall be amended by deleting the second foot-note and substituting of SChedue therefore the following :- "2. Here insert the purposes, which shall be one or other of those set forth in sub-sections (1), (2), (3), (4), (5) or (6) of section ten of the Ordinance." 6. Schedule J to the Arms and Ammunition Ordinance, 1924, Amendment shall be amended by deleting paragraph (d) of section one thereof fShedule and by substituting therefore the following paragraphs :- "(d) Under sub-section (3) of section ten shall be the Colonial Secretary ; and under the last paragraph (registration and stamping of firearms) of the said section shall be the Comptroller of Customs ; and (e) Under sub-sections (5) and (6) of section ten shall be the Chief Inspector of Mines." 7. The Arms and Ammunition (Amendment) Ordinance, Repeal of 1927, is hereby repealed. No. 5 of 1927 Passed in the Legislative Council this twenty-third day of May, in the year of Our Lord One thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.P. 2318124 Explosives (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 3 of 1929. In His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this twenty- third day of May, 1929. M. A. YOUNG, Acting Governor. Cap. 62 AN ORDINANCE to Amend the Explosives Ordinance, 1924. Date of commence- ment (25th May, 1929.) BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of the Colony of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :- Short title 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Explosives (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. Repeal and 2. Section four of the Explosives Ordinance, 1924, is hereby replasemeLt repealed and the following section is substituted therefore: of sec. 4 of Cap. 62 4. (1) Subject to the provisions of the Arms and Licence for Ammunition Ordinance, 1924, it shall not be lawful keeping or for any person to keep or sell any explosive without a sale of licence for that purpose as hereinafter provided or explosives otherwise than in accordance with the terms of such Cap. 11 1: Keeping of explosives by holders of mining leases, etc. cllence. (2) The provisions of the preceding sub-section of this section shall not apply to (a) the holder of a mining lease, mining right, exclusive prospecting licence or prospecting right No. 3 of Explosives (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. 1929. granted under the Minerals Ordinance, 1927, or 0o.36 of of any concession contemplated by paragraph (b) 1927 of section sixty-nine of the said Ordinance, or (b) the applicant for a mining lease or mining right to whom permission to mine has been granted under section nineteen of the said Ordinance, or (c) the applicant for an exclusive prospecting licence under the said Ordinance, where such holder or applicant requires explosives for the purpose of mining or prospecting, but the right of any such holder or applicant to keep explosives for such purposes shall be subject to rules which may be ma le under section sixteen of this Ordinance. 3. Section nine of the Explosives Ordinance, 1924, is hereby Amendment amended by inserting the words "or District Commissioner" cf sec. 9 of after the words or Inspector of Police" wherever the latter Cap. 62 words occur in the section. 4. Section ten of the Explosives Ordinance, 1924 is hereby Amendment amended- of see. 10 of (a) by substituting for the words "such licence or" theCap. words "such licence, in contravention of section four of this Ordinance, or keep or sell any explosive otherwise than in accordance with" ; (b) by substituting for the words "conviction before a Magistrate" the words "summary conviction," and (c) by substituting for the words "The Magistrate may in his." the words "the court may in its." 5. The Explosives Ordinance, 1924, is hereby amended by Amendment inserting the following section under the heading Miscellaneous" f Cap. 62 by and immediately before section fifteen :- insertion of new section 14A. No person shall as of right be entitled to the grant before se15 of any licence to keep, sell, store or us- any explosives refusal of under this Ordinance or any rules made thereunder; Appealto but the same may be refused without any reason being Governor assigned, subject only to an appeal to the Governor whose decision shall be final." 6. Section sixteen of the Explosives Ordinance, 1924 is Repeal and hereby repealed and the following section is substituted therefore: replacement of sec. 16 of "16. The Governor in Council may make rules, subject Cap. 62 to the approval of the Legislative Council, for Power of regulating- Governor in Council to (a) the shipping, unshipping, transhipment, landing, make rules transport, storage and warehousing of explosives; No. 3 of 1929. Explosives (Amendment Ordinance, 1929. (b) the temporary deposit of explosives upon importation; (c) the terms upon which licences for the keeping and sale of explosives may be issued; and (d) the keeping and use of explosives by (i) holders of mining leases, mining rights. exclusive prospecting licences or prospecting No. 36 of rights granted under the Minerals Ordinance, 1927 1927, or of any concession contemplated by paragraph (b) of section sixty-nine of the said Ordinance; (ii) applicants for mining leases or mining rights to whom permission to mine has been granted under section nineteen of the said Ordinance, and (iii) applicants for exclusive prospecting licences under the said Ordinance. Such rules may contain such provisions as the Governor in Council may consider to be desirable in the interests of safety or to be likely to prevent explosives getting into the hands of persons not authorised to have explosives. Such rules may provide that any breach thereof shall be punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding fifty pounds or by imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a term not exceeding three months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and may provide for the forfeiture of any explosive in respect of which such breach shall have occurred upon an order of the court to that effect-" Passed in the Legislative Council this twenty-third day of May. in the year of Our Lord One thousand nine hundred and twelnty-nine. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. T'HI PRINTED IMPRKESION has been carefully compared by me with the bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, M.P.231-24. Clerk of Legislative Council. Pensions (European Oficers) (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 4 of 1929. SIn His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this twenty- third day of May, 1929. M. A. YOUNG, Acting Governor. AN ORDINANCE to Amend the Pensions cap. 146 (European Officers) Ordinance, 1924. (25th May, 1929.) Date of com- mencement t BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of the Colony of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :- 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Pensions (European Short title Officers) (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929, and shall apply to and applica- the Colony and Protectorate. tion 2. Section two of the Pensions (European Officers) Ordinance, Amendment 1924 (hereinafter referred to as the Principal Ordinance) is of sec. 2 of hereby amended- Cap 14 (i) by the deletion of the definitions of the terms pensionable office," annual value," and other public service" and the substitution therefore of the following definitions :- The term 'pensionable office' means- (a) in respect of service in the Colony, an office which has been declared by the Governor in Council, with the sanction of the Secretary of No. 4 of 1929. Pensions (European Officers) (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. State, by a notification published in the Gazette, to be pensionable: provided that any office declared to be pensionable under this section may be declared at any time by the Governor in Council, with the sanction of the Secretary of State, by a notification published in the Gazette, to be no longer pensionable, due regard being had to existing rights : (b) In respect of other public service, an office which is pensionable under the laws or rules in force in such service. The term 'annual value' in the case of a pension means the total annual pension actually granted or, in cases where the officer has elected for, or has been granted, a gratuity and reduced pension, the total annual pension which he might have been granted if he had not received a gratuity and reduced pension. The term 'public service' means service 'in a civil capacity under the Government of the Colony or the Imperial Government, or the Government of India or of a British Dominion, Colony or Protectorate or a territory under British mandate, and any such other service as the Secretary of State may determine to be "public service" for the purpose of any provision of this Ordinance or the rules made thereunder. Service as a Governor or High Commissioner of a British Dominion, Colony or Protectorate, or a territory under British mandate, or as a Governor in India shall be deemed to be public service except for the purposes of computation of pension or gratuitn and of section ten. The term other public service' means public service not under the Government of the Colony." (ii) by the addition thereto of the following definition:- "The term 'Members of the West African Nursing Staff' includes matrons, senior nursing sisters, sister tutors, nursing sisters and every other member of the European Nursing Staff." Amendment 8. Section seven of the Principal Ordinance is hereby of sec. 7 of amended, with effect from the first lday of January, 1i928- Cap. 146 (a) by the insertion immediately after the words "fifty years." where they occur in the second line, of the words and brackets "(or in the case of members of the West African Nursing Staff, forty-five years)" ; No. 4 of Pensions (European Oficers) (Amendmen/) Ordinance, 1929. 1929. (b) by the insertion immediately after paragraph (e) of the following words :- "or (f) in the case of the officer having become a Governor within the meaning of the Pensions 1 & 2 Geo. 5 (Governors of Dominions, etc.) Acts, or any Act 2 & 3 eo. 5 replacing or amending the same, and retiring C. 26 in any circumstances rendering him eligible for a pension under such legislation." (c) by deletion therefrom of the first proviso thereto; (d) by deletion from the second proviso thereto of the word- "also" where it occurs immediately after, the word Provided" ; (e) by the insertion of the word "public" before the word "service" where it first occurs in the second proviso; (f) by the deletion therefrom of the words "senior nursing sisters wherever they occur in the second proviso thereto, and the substitution therefore of the words "members of the West African Nursing Staff"; (g) by the addition at the end of the second proviso thereto of the words and brackets (or in the case of members of the West African Nursing Staff, forty-five years)," and (h) by the addition thereto of the following words:- "Provided also that members of the West African Nursing Staff whose aggregate public service in the West African colonies and protectorates at the date of retirement amounts to fifteen years, of which not less than ten shall have been residential, shall, be regarded for the purpose of this section as having attained the age of forty-five years." 4. Section nine of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Amendment amended, with effect from the first day of January, 1928, by of sec. 9 f the addition at the end thereof of the words "or in the case Cap. 146 of members of the West African Nursing Staff, forty-five years." 5. Section thirteen of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Amendment amended by the deletion of the words "in the service of the of sec. 13 of Colony" and the substitution therefore of the words "in the Cap. 146 public service." 6. The following section shall be inserted in the Principal Insertion of Ordinance as section 17A :- new sec. 17A "17A. When a European officer holding a pensionablein ap.146 Gratuity to office, who is not serving on probation or agreement, estate where dies while in the service of the Colony, it shall be otheier esi the Colony No. 4 of 1929. Pensimis (European Officers) (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. lawful for the Governor in Council to grant. to his legal personal representative a gratuity of an amount not exceeding one year's pensionable emoluments." Passed in the Legislative Council this twenty-third day of May, in the year of Our Lord One thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIs PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. HP.B- -349. Destructive Pests (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No, 5 of 1929. SIn His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this fifth day of June, 1929. M. A. YOUNG, Acting Governor. AN ORDINANCE to Amend the Destructive Cap.53 Pests Ordinance, 1924. Date of (15th June, 1929.) commence- ment BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of the Colony of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :- -1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Destructive Pests Short title (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. 2. Section six of the Destructive Pests Ordinance, 1924, Amendment of sec. 6 of is hereby amended by the deletion of paragraph (3). Cap. 53 Passed in the Legislative Council this twenty-third day of May, in the year of Our Lord One thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine. J. L. JOHN, Glerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the.Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. 4MP. A4ra Native Produce (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 6 of 1929. In His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this fifth day of June, 1929. M. A. YOUNG, Acting Governor. An Ordinance to Amend the Native Produce Ordinance, 1928. Date of cor- (1st January, 1929.) mencement BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of the Colony of Sierra Leone. with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :- Short title 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Native Produce and com- (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929, and shall be deemed to have come mencemerit into operation on the first day of January, 1929. Amendment 2. The Native Produce Ordinance, 1928, is hereby amended- of No. 16 of 1928. (a) by substituting the words Agricultural Department" for the words Lands and Forests Department" wherever the said words occur in the Ordinance, and (b) by substituting the words Director of Agriculture" for the words "Commissioner of Lands and Forests" wherever the said words occur in the Ordinance. LS. No. 16 of 1928 No. 6 of Native Produce (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. 1929. Passed in the Legislative Council this twenty-third day of May, in the year of Our Lord One thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M, ?',264-24. Aliens Naturalization and Acquisition of Property (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 7 of 1929. In His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this fifth day of June, 1929. M. A. YOUNG, Acting Governor. AN ORDINANCE to Amend the Aliens Naturalization and Acquisition of Property Ordinance, 1924. (15th June, 1929.) BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of the Colony of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:- Short title 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Aliens Naturalization and Acquisition of Property (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. Amendment 2. Sub-section (2) (d) of section eleven of the Aliens of Cap.4, Naturalization and Acquisition of Property Ordinance. 1924, (in sec. 11. this Ordinance referred to as the Principal Ordinance) shall be No. 10 of 1928 amended by substituting the words the Colony for the words His Majesty's Dominions wherever the said words occur in the sub-section. Cap. 4 No. 10 of 1928 Date of com- mencement No. i .of AJiens Naturalization and Acquisition of Property 1929. (Amrendment) Ordinanc6, 1929. Repeal and replacement 8. Section 1HA of the Principal Ordinance is hereby repealed of Cap. 4, and the following section substituted therefore sec. llA No. 10 of HA. A person to whom a certificate of naturalization 1928 has been granted under this Ordinance or any Loss of Ordinance repealed by this Ordinance who, when nationality in any foreign state and not under disability, by turaa obtaining a certificate of naturalization or by any tion other voluntary and formal act, becomes naturalized therein, shall thenceforth be deemed to have ceased to possess the local status of British subject in the Colony, and the wife and every minor child of that person shall thereupon also cease to possess that status." 4. Section 13A of the Principal Ordinance is hereby repealed Repeal and and the following section substituted therefore :-f Cp c t "13A, (1) Where a certificate of naturalization is revoked, N. 10of the Governor may by o-der direct that the wife 1928 ald ninor children (or any of them) of the person Effect of whose certificate is revoked shall cease to possess revocation the local status of British subject in the Colony, and of natural- the wife or child, as the case may be, shall thereupon ization be regarded as an alien within the limits of the Colony, but, except where the Governor dihects as aforesaid, the local status of British subject in the Ootony possessed by the wife and mnitor chiirten of the person whose certificate is revoked shall not be affected by the revocation and they shall continue to possess the local tatuss of British subject in the Colony." Provided that- (a) it shall be lawful for the wife of any such person within six months after the date of the order of revocation to make a declaration of alienage, and thereupon she and any minor children of her husband and herself shall cease to possess the local status of British subjects in the Colony and (b) the Governor shall not make any such order as aforesaid in the case of a wife who was at birth a British subject, unless he is satisfied that if she had held a certificate of naturalization in her own right the certificate could properly have been revoked under this Ordinance, and the provisions of this Ordinance as to referring cases for inquiry shall apply to the making of any such Order as they apply to the revocation of a certificate. No. 7 of 1929M Aliens Naturalization and Acquisition of Property (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. (2) The provisions of this section shall, as respects persons affected thereby, have effect in substitution for the provisions of section 11A of this Ordinance'as to the effect upon the wife and children of any person who ceases to possess the local status of British subject in the Colony in accordance with that section, and the provisions of that section shall accordingly not apply in any such case. (3) Where a certificate of naturalization is revoked, the former holder thereof shall be regarded within the limits of the Colony as an alien and as a subject of the state to which he belonged at the time the certificate was granted." Passed in the Legislative Council this twenty-third day of May, in the year of Our Lord One thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M. P. 12133/V128 * 19 Freetown Municipality Oficers' Superannuation Ordinance, 1929. COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 8 of 1929. In His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this first day of June, 1929. M. A. YOUNG, Acting Governor. AN ORDINANCE to Provide for the Super- annuation of Persons Employed by the City Council of Freetown. Date of (1st June, 1929.) commence- ment BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of the Colony of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Cou!.cil thereof, as follows :- 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Freetown Municipality Short title, Officers' Superannuaticn Ordinance, 1929; it shall be read as one construction with the Freetown Municipality Ordinance, 1927, and shall come and com- meacemea into operation on the first day of June, 1929, which date is heriin- No. 38 of after referred to as the appointed day. 1927 2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires Definitions "Service" means whole-time or part-time service in the permanent employment of the City Council after an officer or servant has attained the age of eighteen years, other than service in respect of which the .officer or servant is entitled to any superannuation allowance No. 8 of 1929. Freetown Municipality Oficers' Superannuatim. Ordinance, 1929. or gratuity from any other source, and when used in relation to service after the appointed day means continuous service, and when used in relation to service rendered before the appointed day means service whether continuous or not; "Contributing service" means service rendered by an officer or servant in respect of which he is a con- tributor to the Superannuation Fund; Non-contributing service means service rendered to the City Council before the appointed day by an officer or servant occupying, on the appointed day, a post designated as an established post; "Officer," or "servant," means an officer or servant in the permanent service of the City Council occupying a post designated as an established post for the purposes of this Ordinance by a resolution of the City Council, and whether in receipt of salary or wages; Salary or wages means all salary or wages paid to any officer or servant as such for his own use, also the money value of any apartments appertaining to his office or employment, but does not include payments for overtime or any allowance paid to him to cover cost of office accommodation or clerks' assistance; "Superannuation Fund means a fund to be established by the City Council in the manner prescribed and provided in section fourteen of this Ordinance; Actuary means a fellow of the Institute of Actuaries or the Faculty of Actuaries in Scotland. Subsequent 8. Where the City Council designates at any subsequent date designation any further posts as established posts for the purposes of this of posts Ordinance, the date of such subsequent designation shall be deemed to be the appointed day as respects the officers or servants oocupying the posts so designated at the date of designation. Title to 4. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, every superannua- officer and servant- tion allowances (a) who shall have completed ten years' service and shall become incapable of discharging the duties of his office or employment with efficiency by reason of permanent ill-health or infirmity of mind or body ; or (b) who having completed ten years' service and having attained the age of fifty years shall be superannuated by resolution of the Council; or .21 No. 8 of Freetown Municipality Officers' Superannuation Ordinance, 1929. 1929. (c) who shall have attained the age of fifty-five years and shall have completed ten years' service, shall be entitled on resigning or ott erwise ceasing to hold hip office or employment, to receive during life a superannuation allowance according to the scale by this Ordinapce provided. (2) Save as is otherwise by this Ordinance provided, every such superannuation allowance shall be. paid out of the SSuperanuation Fund. (3) Where an officer or servant hap attained the age of fifty-five years, he shall cease to hold his office or employment: Provided that the City Council may, with the consent of the officer or servant, by resolution extend the period of service or employment of any. such officer or servant for one year or any less period, and so from time to time as they may deeim expedient. 5. Subject to the provisions of section thirteen of this Scae of Ordinance and to. any other provisions of this Ordinance, tile supern:nua superannuation allowance to be made to an officer or servant tion under this Ordinance shall be made opt of the Superaqnuation allowances Fund a4id shall be on the following scale : (a) After ten years' service, ten-sixtieths of the average amount of his salary or wages, during the five years which immediately precede the day on which the officer or servant ceases to hold his office or employment, or attains the age of fifty-five years, whichever be the earlier : (b) After eleven years' service, eleyen-sixtieths of such average amount: (c) And so on up to a maximum after forty or more ?ears' service of forty-sixtieths of such average amount. Provided that, for the purpose of calcl!atipg thr superannuation allowance of a full-time officer who has fo merly served as a part-time officer, the period of part-time service shall be treated as though it were whole-titne service for , proportionately reduced period. 6. An officer or servant who is dismissed or resigns or Forfeiture otherwise ceases to hold his office or employment in consequence for fraud, of any offence of a fraudulent character or of grave misconduct etc. shall forfeit all claim to any superannuation allowance under this Ordinance. Provided that, in thg case of any such pficer or servant, the City Council may, if they see fic, return to him out of the Superannuation Fund, or pay to his wife or family out of that fund a s8m equal to the amount of all his contributions therpto utder this Ordinance .or to such part thereof as the City Council shall thipk fit. ~ I~I ____1__1_ 22 NSo. 8 o( 19*9. Freetown Municipality Officers' Superannuation Ordinance, 1929. Return of 7. An officer or servant who has not become entitled to a contribu- superannuation allowance, and who loses his office or employment tons with by reason of a reduction of staff, the abolition of his office or interest in the event of the termination of a joint appointment, or ceases to hold his office loss of em- or employment by reason of ill-health, mental infirmity, or ployment bodily injury, or is required to retire on marriage, shall be thogn o entitled to receive out of the Superannuation Fund a sum equal to reduction of staff, ill- the amount of all his contributions to such fund. together with health. etc, compound interest thereon, calculated to the date of his loss of office or employment or resignation, at the rate of three per centum per annum by half-yearly rests. Return of 8. In the event of an officer or servant voluntarily resigning contribu- his office or employment or being dismissed for incapacity (fraud interest in or misconduct not being alleged) before he has, under the the event of provisions of this Ordinance, become entitled to a superannuation resignation. allov ance, the City Council shall pay to him out of the etc. Superannuation Fund a sum equal to the amount of the contributions made by such officer or servant under this Ordinance, together with compound interest thereon calculated to the date of resignation or dismissal at the rate of three per centum per annum by half-yearly rests. Return of 9. (1) In the event of an officer or servant dying before contribu- becoming entitled to or receiving a superannuation allowance of death under this Ordinance, the City Council shall pay to his legal personal representative out of the Superannuation Fund, a sum equal to the amount of the contributions made by such officer or servant under this Ordinance, together with compound interest thereon, calculated to the date of his death, at the rate of three per centum per annum by half-yearly rests. (2) In any case in which any contributor shall die, after he has become entitled to a superannuation allowance :ider this Ordinance, and before he shall have received by way of superannuation allowance an amount equal in the aggregate to the amount of his contributions under this Ordinance, together with compound interest thereon calculated to the date of his retirement at the rate of three per centum per annum by half- yearly rests, the City Council shall pay to his legal personal representative out of the Superannuation Fund the difference between the total amount which sunh contributor has received by way of superannuation allowance and the aggregate amount of his contributions under this Ordinance, together with compound interest thereon at the rate and calculated as aforesaid up to the date ot his retirement. Notice of 10. At least one month's notice in writingg shall be given to certain every member of the City Council of the meeting at which any proposals proposal to return contributions to an officer or servant who has No. 8 6f Freetown Municipality Officers' Superannuation Ordinanree, 1929. 1929. been dismissed or resigns or to make any payment in accordance with the provisions of section six of this Ordinance or any proposal to grant a gratuity under this Ordinanoe will be considered. 11. Every superannuation allowance or gratuity granted Allowance under this Ordinance shall be payable to or in trust for the" t assigna- officer or servant, and shall not be assignable or chargeable with ble his debts or other liabilities. 12. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, every Officers and officer and servant shall, as from the appointed day, contribute servants to to the Superannuation Fund an amount equal to five per centuin co e of his salary or wages, which amount shall be deducted from the salary or wages payable to him by the City Council or person paying the same, and, shall be carried to the credit of and form part of the Superannuation Fund. (2) Nothing in this Ordinance shall require any officer or servant to make any contribution for the purposes of this Ordinance in respect of any period previous to the appointed day. 13. Non-contributing service shall be reckoned for Allowanie determining whether an officer or servant is entitled to a for pi'evious superannuation allowance under this Ordinance, and, in service calculating the superannuation allowance of any officer or servant who is so entitled, his allowance in respect of his non-contributing service shall be at the rate of one one-hundred and twentieth (or in the case of any officer. or servant in which the City Council by resolution so decide, at such rate as the City Council, may determine, not exceeding the rate of one-sixtieth) of the average amount of his salary or wages for the last five years of his service ia respect of each year (not exceeding forty years) of his service,. and, in reckoning the non-contributing service of any officer or servant, any portion of a year during which such officer or servant has served for more than six months shall be reckoned as a year : Provided that the amount of any superannuation allowance granted in respect of non-contributing service, so far as it exceeds one one-hundred-and-twentieth of such average amount as aforesaid in respect of each year of service, shall not be paid out of the Superannuation Fund, but shall be chargeable upon the City Fund. 14. (1) The City Council shall establish and administer Superannua- a Superannuation Fund, to which shall be carried and credited fion Fund in each year- (a) the amounts deducted in such year under the provisions of this Ordinance from the salaries and wages of officers and servants contributing to- the Superannuation Fund; No. S 6f 19; -PFeltodn MWIniciaity Oficers' Superannuation Ordinance, 1929. (h) a sum equal in amount to the sum which during such year has been contributed to the Superannuation Fund by officers or servants (in this Ordinance referred to as the equivalent contribution ") and such further sums, if any, as the City Council may become liable to carry and contribute thereto under the provisions of this Ordinance ; (c) all dividends and interest arising in such year oat of the investment or use of the Superannuation Fund or any part thereof ; *(d) such amount as may have been certified by an actuary as necessary in order that the Superannuation Fund may be solvent, to be calculated so as to cast upon the City Council, so far as may be, an equal annual charge for a period not exceeding forty years from the appointed day. (2) The equivalent contribution and the equal annual charge shall be made out of the City Fund. Actuarial 15. (1) Once at least in every five years the condition investigation of the Superannuation Fund shall be submitted by the City Council to an actuary, who shall consider the same and shall make an actuarial valuation of the assets and liabilities of the Superannuation Fund. (2) Where on any such valuation the actuary certifies that aadeficiency or a disposable surplus is disclosed, the City Council shall subinit to the Governor a scheme for making good the deficiency by means of payments by the City Council into the Sipeninnuation Fund, or by means of an increase in the contributions as provided by this Ordinance of the City Council, or by fieans of an increase in the equal annual charge, or in ahny two or all of these ways, or (as the case may require) for dikposing of the surplus by reducing the said contributions or the equal annual charge or both. * (3) Where on any such valuation the actuary certifies that in order to maintain an equality of value, as respects persons booming contributors after the date of the scheme, between the amounts to be contributed by or in respect of such persoils and the amounts of benefit to which such persons. will become entitled, it is expedient to increase or decrease the contribution as .provided -by this Ordinance in respect of such persons, provision may be made by the scheme for such increase or A"ecrease as the case may require, to be applied in equal proportions as between the City Council and such persons. (4) Where any -such scheme is approved by the Governor this Ordinance shall have effect subject to the provisions of the scheme. No. 8 of Freetown Municipality Otficers' Superannuation Ordinance, 1929. 1929. (5) The City Council shall send a copy of the actuary's report to the Governor, and, if within six months of the receipt of such report the City Council fail to submit a scheme under this section, or to submit a scheme of which the Governor approves, the Governor may himself make a scheme, which shall have the same effect as a scheme submitted by the City Council and approved by him. 16. The surplus of the annual income of the Superannuation Investment Fund above the expenditure thereout shall from time to time of surplus be invested in securities in which trustees in England are moom authorized to invest, and the income arising from time to time from such investment shall be paid into that fund. 17. Any question which may arise between the City Council Arbitration and any officer or servant as to the right to or the amount of a superannuation allowance, or the right to any return of contributions under this Ordinance, or the amount of the contribution of such officer or servant, shall, in default of agreement, be referred to and determined by an arbitrator to be agreed upon between the City Council and such officer or servant, or, failing such agreement, appointed by the Governor, and subject as aforesaid the provisions of the Arbitration Ordinance, No. 35 of 1927, shall apply to any such reference. 1927 18. (1) The City Council may, in any case in which an Gratuities officer or servant is permanently incapacitated by an injury sustained by him in the actual discharge of his duty and without his own default, and specifically attributable to the nature of his duty, grant to such officer or servant, subject to such conditions as they may think fit, such gratuity either by way of a lump sum or periodical payments as they may consider reasonable having regard to all the circumstances of the case, including any allowance or gratuity under this Ordinance, so however that the sums received by him shall not exceed in the aggregate the amount of any allowance or gratuity to which he would have been entitled if he had already attained the age of fifty-five at the date when he became incapacitated. (2) The City Council may grant to any officer or servant who is not entitled to a superannuation allowance under this Ordinance, on his retiring from service, such gratuity as the City Council may by resolution determine, but so that the total amount payable, including the return of contributions with interest, shall not exceed two years salary or wages of such officer or servant. (3) Any gratuity granted under this section shall not be paid out of the Superannuation Fund, but shall be chargeable upon the City Fund. No. 8 of 1929. Freetown Municipality Oficers' Superannuation Ordinance, 1929. Gratuities or 19. Gratuities or returns of contributions with interest under returns of contribu- any preceding section may be paid in one sum or by instalments tions payable as the Council shall direct. in one sum or in instal- ments 20. Any payments or expenses made or incurred by the City Payments Council under the provisions of this Ordinance or in carrying the andexpenses provisions of this Ordinance into execution, and not otherwise under Ordin- provided for, shall in the case of any officer or servant in respect ance of whom any payment or expense is made or incurred, be paid out of the City Fund. Passed in the Legislative Council this thirty-first day of May, in the year of Our Lord One thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Ciuncil. M. P. Fr26123. West African Court of Appeal (Civil Cases) Ordinance, 1929. COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 9 of 1929. In His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this first day of June, 1929. M. A. YOUNG, Acting Governor. AN ORDINANCE to Make Provision for Appeals to the West African Court of Appeal in Civil Cases. Date of ( 1929.) commence- ment BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of the Colony of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :- 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the West African Court of Short title, Appeal (Civil Cases) Ordinance, 1929; it shall be read and construction construed as one with the Supreme Court Ordinance, 1924, shall application apply to the Colony and Protectorate, and shall come into mencement operation on the day fixed for the commencement of the West African Court of Appeal Order in Council, 1928, under section sixteen of the said Order in Council. 2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires- Interpreta- "Court of Appeal" means the West African Court of tion Appeal established by the West African Court of Appeal Order in Council, 1928; "Supreme Court" means the Supreme Court of the Colony whether in its ordinary or summary jurisdiction. 3. An appeal shall lie to the Court of Appeal- When (a) from all final judgments and decisions of the appeallies Supreme Court or the Circuit Court (i) given in respect of a claim exceeding the sum of fifty pounds; or 28 No. 9 of 1929. West African Court of Appeal (Civil Cases) Ordinance, 1929. (ii) determining, directly or indirectly, a claim or question respecting money, goods, or other property, or any civil right or other matter above the amount or valne of fifty pounds; and (b) by leave of the Judge making the order, but not otherwise, from all interlocutory orders and decisions made in the course of any suit or matter : Provided always that no appeal shall lie, except by leave of the Court making the order, (a) from an order as to costs only, or (b) from an order made by the consent of parties. Power to 4. In addition and without prejudice to the right of appeal reserve a-d conferred by this Ordinance, any Judge of the Supreme Court or state ques- tions of law the Circuit Court may reserve for consideration by the Court of for opinion Appeal, on a case to be stated by him, any question of law which of the Court may arise on the trial of any suit or matter, and may give any of Appeal judgment or decision subject to the opinion of the Court of Appeal, and the Court of Appeal shall have power to hear and determine every such question. Judgments not to be 5. The Court of Appeal shall not reverse any judgment ground of by reason of the ruling of a court that the stamp upon any insufficiency document is sufficient or that the document does not require a of stamp on stamp. a document Repeal of 6. Part XI of the Supreme Court Ordinance, 1924, and the Part XI of, Schedule to the said Ordinance are hereby repealed. and Schedule to, Cap. 205 Passed in the Legislative Council this thirty-first day of May, in the year of Our Lord One thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.P. C.F.172-24. West African Court of Appeal (Criminal Cases) Ordinance, 1929. COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 10 of 1929. O In His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this first day of June, 1929. M. A. YOUNG, Acting Governor. AN ORDINANCE to Make Provision for Appeals to the West African Court of Appeal in Criminal Cases. Date of ( 1929.) commence- ment BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of the Colony of Sierra Leone. with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :- Short title, 1. (1) This Ordinance may be cited as the West African application Court of Appeal (Criminal Cases) Ordinance, 1929. and com- mencement (2) This ordinance shall apply to the Colony and the Protectorate, and to all persons convicted after the commence- ment of this Ordinance. (3) This Ordinance shall .come into operation on such date as the Governor may fix by a proclamation in the Gazette. 2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires :- Interpreta- "Order in Council" means the West African Court of tion Appeal Order in Council, 1928. "Court of Appeal" means the West African Court of Appeal established by the said Order in Council; No. 10 of 1929. West African Court of Appeal (Criminal Cases) Ordinance, 1929. Rules of court" means rules of court made under the said Order in Council; Appellant" includes a person who has been convicted and desires to appeal under this Ordinance; "Verdict includes the decision of a judge as to whether or not an accused person is guilty in cases where such decision rests with the judge; "Conviction means a conviction on information by or in the Supreme Coart or the Circuit Court; "Information" shall be deemed to include a coroner's inquisition ; "Sentence includes any order of the Court made on conviction with reference to the person convicted or his wife or children, and any recommendation of the Supreme Court as to the making of an order that a person convicted before the said court should be re- No. 1 of 1926 patriated under the Repatriation of Convicted Natives Ordinance, 1926, and the power of the Court of Appeal to pass a sentence includes a power to make any such order of the Court or recommendation, and a recommendation so made by the Court of Appeal shall have the same effect for the purposes of the said Ordinance as the recommendation of the convicting court; Deputy Registrar" means sthe Deputy Registrar of the Court of Appeal in Sierra Leone. Right of Appeal and Determination of Appeals. Right of 3. A person convicted on information by or in the Supreme appeal in Court or the Circuit Court may appeal to the Court of Appeal- criminal cases (a) against his conviction on any ground of Appeal which involves a question of law alone; and (b) with the leave of the Court of Appeal or upon the Certificate of the Judge who tried him that it is a fit case for appeal against his conviction on any ground of appeal which involves a question of fact alone, or a question of mixed law and fact, or any other ground which appears to the Court to be a sufficient ground of appeal; and (c) with the leave of the Court of Appeal against the senterice passed on his conviction, unless the sentence is one fixed by law. Determine 4. (1) The Court of Appeal on any such appeal against tion of conviction shall allow the appeal if they think that the verdict ordes in should be set aside on the ground that it is unreasonable or cases No. 10 of West African Court of Appeal (Criminal Cases) Ordinance. 1929. 1929. cannot be supported having regard to the evidence or that the judgment of the Court before whom the appellant was convicted should be set aside on the ground of a wrong decision of any question of law or that on any ground there was a miscarriage of justice, and in any other case shall dismiss the appeal : Provided that the Court may, notwithstanding that they are cf opinion that the point raised in the appeal might be decided in favour of the appellant, dismiss the appeal if they consider that no substantial miscarriage of justice has actually occurred. (2) Subject to the special provisions of this Ordinance, the Court of Appeal shall, if they allow an appeal against conviction, quash the conviction and direct a judgment and verdict of acquittal to be entered. (3) On an appeal against sentence the Court of Appeal shall, if they think that a different sentence should have been passed, quash the sentence passed at the trial, and pass such other sentence warranted in law by the verdict (whether more or less severe) in substitution therefore as they think ought to have been passed, and in any other case shall dismiss the appeal. 5 (1) If it appears to the Court of Appeal that an appellant, Powers of though not properly convicted on some count or part of the court in information, has been properly convicted on some other count or special cases part of the information, the court may either affirm the sentence passed on the appellant at the trial, or pass such sentence in substitution therefore as they think proper, and as may be warranted in law by the verdict on the count or part of the information on which the court consider that the appellant has been properly convicted. (2) Where an appellant has been convicted of an offence and the judge who tried him or the jury (as the case may be) could on the information have found him guilty of some other offence, and on the finding of such judge or the jury it appears to the Court of Appeal that such judge or the jury must have been satisfied of facts which proved him guilty of that other offence, the court may, instead of allowing or dismissing the appeal, substitute for the verdict found by such judge or the jury a verdict of guilty of that other offence, and pass such sentence in substitution for the sentence passed at the trial as may be warranted in law for that other offence, not being a sentence of greater severity. (3) Where on the conviction of the appellant by a jury the jury have found a special verdict, and the Court of Appeal consider that a wrong conclusion has been arrived at by the court before which the appellant has been convicted on the effect of that verdict, the Court of Appeal may, instead of allowing the appeal, order such conclusion to be recorded as appears to the court to be in law required by the verdict, and pass such sentence in substitution for the sentence passed at the trial as may be warranted in law. No. 10 of 1929. West African Court of Appeal (Criminal Cases) Ordinance, -- 1929. (4) If on any appeal it appears to the Court of Appeal that, although the appellant was guilty of the act or omission charged against him, he was insane at the time the act was done or omission made so as not to be responsible according to law for his actions, the court may quash the sentence passed at the trial and order the appellant to be kept in custody until His Majesty's pleasure shall be known, and such order shall have the same effect as if it were made by the judge by whom the appellant was tried. 6. (1) The operation of any order for the restitution of Revesting any property to any person made on a conviction on information and restitu-and the revesting, in case of any smuh conviction, in the tion of property original owner or his personal representative of the property on convic- in stolen goods, shall (unless the court before whom the tion conviction takes place direct to the contrary in any case in which, in their opinion, the title to the property is not in dispute) be suspended- (a) in any case until the expiration of ten days after the date of the conviction; and (b) in cases where notice of appeal or leave to appeal is given within ten days after the date of conviction, until the determination of the appeal; and in cases where the operation of any such order, or such revesting, is suspended until the determination of the appeal, the order or such revesting, as the case may be, shall not take effect as to the property in question if the conviction is quashed on appeal. (2) The Court of Appeal may by order annul or vary any order made on a trial for the restitution of any property to any person, although the conviction is not quashed; and the order, if annulled, shall not take effect, and, if varied, shall take effect as so varied. PROCEDURE. Time for 7. (1) Where a person convicted desires to appeal to the appealing Court of Appeal, or to obtain the leave of that court to appeal, he shall give notice of appeal or notice of his application for leave to appeal in such manner as may be directed by rules of court within ten days of the date of conviction: Except in the case of a conviction involving sentence of death, the time, within which notice of appeal or notice of an application for leave to appeal may be given, may be extended at any time by the Court of Appeal or by the Court before whom the appellant was convicted No. 10 of West African Court of Appeal (Criminal Cases) Ordinance, 1929. 1929. (2) In the case of a conviction involving sentence of death or corporal punishment- (a) the sentence shall not in any case be executed until after the expiration of the time within which notice of appeal or of an application for leave to appeal may be given under this section; and (b) if notice is so given, the sentence shall not be executed until after the determination of the appeal, or, in cases where an application for leave to appeal is finally refused, of the application. 8. For the purposes of this Ordinance, the Court of Appeal Supplement- may, if they think it necessary or expedient in the interest of al powers of justice- court (a) order the production of any document, exhibit, or other thing connected with the proceedings, the production of which appears to them necessary for the determination of the case; and (b) if they think fit order any witnesses who would have been compellable witnesses at the trial to attend and be examined before the court, whether they were or were not called at the trial, or order the examination of any such witnesses to be conducted in manner provided by rules of court, or, in the absence of rules of court making provision in that behalf, as they may direct, before any judge of the court or before any officer of the court or other person appointed by the court for the purpose, and allow the admission of any depositions so taken as evidence before the court; and (c) if they think fit receive the evidence, if tendered, of any witness (including the appellant) who is a competent but not compellable witness, and, if the appellant makes an application for the purpose, of the husband or wife of the appellant, in cases where the evidence of the husband or wife could not have been given at the trial except on such an application; and (d) where any question arising on the appeal involves prolonged examination of documents or accounts, or any scientific or local investigation, which cannot in the opinion of the court conveniently be conducted before the court, order the reference of the question in manner provided by rules of court, or, in the absence of rules of court making provision in that behalf, as they may direct, for inquiry and report to a special commissioner appointed by the court, and act upon the report of any such commissioner so far as they think fit to adopt it; No. 10 of 1929. West African Court of Appeal (Criminal Cases) Ordinance, -- 1929. and exercise in relation to the proceedings of the court any other powers which may for the time being be exercised by the Court of Appeal on appeals in civil matters, and issue any warrants necessary for enforcing the orders or sentences of the court: Provided that in no case shall any sentence be increased by reason of or in consideration of any evidence that was not given at the trial. Right of 9. (1) An appellant, notwithstanding that he is in custody, appellant shall be entitled to he present, if he desires it, on the hearing of his appeal, except where the appeal is on some ground involving a question of law alone, but, in that case and on an application for leave to appeal and on any proceedings preliminary or incidental to an appeal, shall not be entitled to be present, except where rules of court provide that he shall have the right to be present. or where the Court of Appeal or, in the case of an application to the court before whom the appellant was convicted for an extension of time within which notice of appeal or notice of application for leave to appeal may be given, the said court, gives him leave to be present. (2) The power of the Court of Appeal to pass any sentence under this Ordinance may be exercised notwithstanding that the appellant is for any reason not present. Admission of 10. (1) An appellant who is not admitted to bail shall. appeflant to bail, and cus-pending the determination of his appeal, be treated in such tody when at- tending court manner as may be directed by rules which shall be made under Cap. 12 the Prisons Ordinance, 1924. (2) The Court of Appeal, or the court before whom he was convicted may, if it seems fit, on the application of an appellant, admit the appellant to bail pending the determination of his appeal. (3) The time during which an appellant, pending the determination of his appeal, is admitted to bail, and subject to any directions which the Court of Appeal may give to the contrary on any appeal, the time during which the appellant, if in custody, is specially treated as an appellant under this section, shall not count as part of any term of imprisonment under his sentence, and, in the case of an appeal under this Ordinance, any imprisonment under the sentence of the appellant. whether it is the sentence passed by the court of trial or the sentence passed by the Court of Appeal, shall, subject to any directions which may be given by the court as aforesaid, be deemed to be resumed or to begin to run, as the case requires, if the appellant is in custody, as from the day on which the appeal is determined, and, if he is not in custody, as from the day on which he is received into prison under the sentence. No. 10 of West African Court of Appeal (Criminal Cases) Ordinance, 1929. 1929. ~ (4) Where a case is stated in a criminal proceeding under section twelve of this Ordinance, this section shall apply to the person in relation to whose conviction the case is stated as it applies to an appellant. (5) Provision shall be made by rules under the Prisons Cap. 162 Ordinance, 1924, for the manner in which an appellant, when in custody, is to be brought to any place at which he is entitled to be present for the purposes of this Ordinance or to any place to which the Court of Appeal may order him to be taken for the purpose of any proceedings of that court, and for the manner in which he is to be kept in custody while absent from prison for the purpose; and an appellant whilst in custody in accordance with those rules shall be deemed to be in legal custody. 11. If it appears to the Deputy Registrar that any notice of Procedure an appeal against a conviction, purporting to be on a ground of with respect to frivolous appeal which involves a question of law alone, does not show appeals on any substantial ground of appeal, the Deputy Registrar may refer questions of the appeal to any judge of the Supreme Court other than the law. judge before whom the appellant was convicted, and such judge may, if he is of the same opinion, direct the Deputy Registrar to refer the appeal to the Court of Appeal in any colony or territory to which the Order in Council applies for summary determination, and, when the case is so referred, the Court of Appeal may, if they consider that the appeal is frivolous or vexatious, and can be determined without adjourning the same for a full hearing, dismiss the appeal summarily, without calling on any persons to attend the hearing or to appear for the Crown thereon. Reservation of Questions of Law for the Opinion of the Court of Appeal. 12. In addition and without prejudice to the right of appeal Reservation conferred by this Ordinance any Judge of the Supreme Court of questions of law for or the Circuit Court may reserve for the consideration of the opinion of Court of Appeal, on a case to be stated by him, any question Court of of law which may arise on the trial before such Judge of Appeal any person charged on information, and if a verdict of guilty be returned, may postpone judgment, or may direct judgment to be entered provisionally, subject to the opinion of the Court of Appeal, respiting execution of the judgment, and the Court of Appeal shall have power to hear and determine every such question. Passed in the Legislative Council this thirty-first day of May, in the year of Our Lord One thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. No. 10 of 1929. West African Court of Appeal (Criminal Cases) Ordinance, -- 1929. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.P. C.F.172124. Protectorate Courts Jurisdiction (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929 COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 11 of 1929. In His Majesty's name I assent Sto this Ordinance this fifth day of June, 1929. M. A. YOUNG, Acting Governor. AN ORDINANCE to Amend the Protectorate Cap. 169 Courts Jurisdiction Ordinance, 1924. Date of (15th June, 1929.) commence- ment BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of the Colony of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council hereof, as follows :- 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Protectorate Courts Short title Jurisdiction (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. 2. The Protectorate Courts Jurisdiction Ordinance, 1924, Amendment is hereby amended by the insertion after section seventeen of of Cap. 169 by insertion the following section :- of new sec- tionafter 17A. Any company or corporation or body politic which sec. 17 sues or is sued in the Court of the District Representa- Commissioner may be represented at the hearing of tion of the cause or matter in such Court by the person corporation who is for the time being the manager or other head in Court of District officer of such company or corporation or body Commis- politic in the Colony or Protectorate, or by some sioner officer or clerk of such company or corporation or body politic authorized in writing in that behalf by such person." No. 11 of 1929. Protectorate Courts Jurisdiction (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. Passed in the Legislative Council this thirty-first day of May, in the year of Our Lord One thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and ofund by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.P. P566129. Crown Lands Conservancy (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 12 of 1929. In His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this fifth day of June, 1929. M. A. YOUNG. Acting Governor. AN ORDINANCE to Amend the Crown Lands Cap. 45 Conservancy Ordinance, 1924. Date of (15th June, 1929.) commence- ment BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of the Colony of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :- 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Crown Lands Short title Conservancy (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. 2. As from the first day of March. 1929, section five of Amendment the Crown Lands Conservancy Ordinance, 1924, shall be deemed of sec. 5 of to have been amended by the insertion between the words Cap. 45 "the fourth year following :" and the words Provided that" of the following proviso :- Provided that until the thirty-first of December, 1932, any such licence may, if the Director of Surveys or such other officer as is mentioned in section three thinks fit, be for a period of one year, commencing on the first of January and expiring on the following thirty-first of December, and the fee for such licence No. 12 of 1929. Crown Lands Conservancy (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. shall be threepence for each acre or part of an acre in respect of which the licence is granted." Amendment 3. Sub-section (1) of section eight of the Crown Lands of sec. 8 of Conservancy Ordinance. 1924, is hereby amended by the addition Cap. 45 thereto of the 'words for each acre or part of an acre in respect of which the ;cence is granted." Passed in the Legislative Council this thirty-first day of May, in the year of Our Lord One thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M. P. O. 110128. Public Transport Services (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. COLONY OF SIERRA. LEONE. No. 13 of 1929. L.In His Majesty's naihe I assent to this Ordinance this fifth day of June, 1929. M. A. YOUNG, Acting Governor. f AN ORDINANCE to Amend the PublicNo.29of 1928 Transport Services Ordinance, 1928. (15th June, 1929.) Date of commence ment BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of the Colony of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :- 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Public Transport Services (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. 2. Section three of the Public Transport Services Ordinance, 1928, is hereby amended by the substitution for the words "conveying goods for profit," of the words "conveying goods for profit, subject to such qualifications and exceptions as the Order may specify." 3. The Public Transport Services Ordinance, 1928. is hereby amended .by the insertion after section five of the following section :- "5A. All actions and suits arising out of, or founded upon, contractual rights and liabilities in respect of any loss or damage occurring in connection with the business, of the Public Transport Services may be brought by No. 13 of 1929. Public Transport Services (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. or against the General Manager of the Sierra Leone Government Railway or such other officer as may for the time being have been appointed by the Governor under section five of this Ordinance to have the control and management of such Public Transport Services; provided that where in any such action or suit the General Manager or such other officer is the defendant, no execution or attachment or process in the nature thereof shall be issued against the General Manager or such other officer or against any property of His Majesty, but any sums of money as may by the judgment of the court be awarded to the plaintiff shall be paid from the Colonial Treasury on the warrant of the Governor." Passed in the Legislative Council this thirty-first day of May, in the year of Our Lord One thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct, copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.P.C.F. 17224. Coroners (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 14 of 1929. In His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this fifth day of June, 1929. M. A. YOUNG, Acting Governor. AN ORDINANCE to Amend the Coroners Cap. 40 Ordinance, 1924. (1st Jldy, 1929.) ame fe- ment BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of the Colony of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :- 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Coroners (Amendment) Short title Ordinance, 1929, and shall come into operation on the first day and count of July, 1929. Amendment 2. The Coroners Ordinance, 1924, is hereby amended by of Cap. 4 the substitution for the heading "Inquests," where it occurs tin of between sections six and seven, of the heading "Cases in which heading Inquests or Inquiries are to be held." between secs. 6 and 7. 3. Section seven of the Coroners Ordinance, 1924, is hereby Amendment amended- of sec. 7 of Cap. 40. (a) by the substitution for the words and brackets "(save in cases where enquiries are directed by this Ordinance to be held) to hold an inquest on view of" of the words to hold an inquest or an enquiry, accordingas this Ordinance directs, on " No. 14 of 1929. Coroners (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. (b) by the substitution for the word "inquest," at the second and third places where the said word occurs, of the words inquest or enquiry," and (c) by the substitution for the words Such inquests may be held on Sunday of the words- "Provided further that whenever a report of an enquiry made by a Headman under the provisions of the ap. 91 Headmen Ordinance, 1924. shall have been made and there is no reason to believe that the death is the result of murder or manslaughter, and the Coroner is satisfied that the circumstances of the death do not require further investigation, no inquest or enquiry shall be held. Amendment An inquest or an enquiry may be held on Sunday." of Cap. 40 by insertion of three new 4. The Coroners Ordinance, 1924, is hereby amended by the secs. be- insertion between sections nine and ten of the following three tween sec. 9 and 10 sections and two headings in the order indicated :- Other cases 9A. If the body of a deceased person is found within in whichian any of the places specified in the Second Schedule hereto and be held. if it appears to the Coroner- (a) that there is reason to suspect that the death was caused by an accident arising out of the use of a vehicle in a street or public highway, or (b) that there is reason to suspect that the death occurred in circumstances the continuance or possible recurrence of which is prejudicial to the health or safety of the public or any section of the public, or (c) that it is for any reason desirable that there should be an inquest rather than an enquiry, the Coroner shall hold an inquest, and he shall hold an inquest notwithstanding that he may have begun an enquiry." Cases in 9B. The Coroner shall hold an enquiry in all cases in which an en- which he is required by section seven of this Ordinance to quiry is to be hold an inquest or an enquiry, and is not by sections eight, nine held or 9A of this Ordinance required to hold an inquest." Viewing the Body." Viewing the 9C. At or before the first sitting of an inquest or an body enquiry on a body, the Coroner shall view the body; and, in the case of an inquest, if, before the body has been buried, the Coroner so directs, or a majority of the jury so desires, the body shall be viewed by the jury also." Inquests." No. 14 of Coroners (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. 1929. 5. Section fifteen of the Coroners Ordinance, 1924, is hereby Amendment amended by the substitution for the words whose body is now a.15 of before you of the words now lying dead." .6. Section thirty-four of the Coroners Ordinance, 1924, is Amendment hereby amended by the substitution for the words A Coroner, f sec. 34 of Cap. 40 upon holding an inquest upon aly dead body, may at any time after view of such dead body by the jury," of the words "A Coroner who has decided to hold an inquest on any dead body, may at any time after he has viewed such dead body." 7. Sections thirty-five, thirty-six and thirty-seven of the Repeal of Coroners Ordinance, 1924, are hereby repealed, snd 37 of Cap. 40 8. The Coroners Ordinance, 1924, is hereby amended by Amendment of Cap. 40 by the insertion between the heading Miscellaneous" and section insertion of thirty-nine of the following section :- new section before sec. "38A. The Governor may from time to time by Order 39w amend the Second Schedule hereto by adding to Governor the places mentioned therein or by removing any to alter place from the said Schedule." Second Schedule 9. The First Schedule to the Coroners Ordinar ce, 1924, is Amendment hereby amended in the following particulars :- of First Schedule to Cap. 40 (a) In Form D there shall be inserted immediately after the words "on view," at each of the two places where the said words occur, the brackets and words "(or on view by the said Coroner)." (b) In Form D the words "then and there lying dead" shall be deleted at each of the two places where the said words occur. (c) In Form E there shall be inserted immediately after the words on view the brackets and words (or on view by me)." 10. The Second Schedule to the Coroners Ordinance, 1924, is Amendment hereby amended by the deletion of the words List of places hSede to where enquiries may not be held and for the words "Section Cap. 40 35 there shall be substituted as the marginal note to the said Schedule the words Section 9A," No. 14 of 1929. Coroners (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. Passed in the Legislative Council this thirty-first day of May, in the year of Our Lord One thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.P. 0. 43/27 Liquor Licence (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 15 of 1929. In His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this eleventh day of June, 1929. M. A. YOUNG, Acting Governor. AN ORDINANCE to Amend the Liquor Cap. 111 Licence Ordinance, 1924. Date of (1st July, 1929). commence- ment BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of the Colony of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :- 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Liquor Licence Short title (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929, and shall come into operation and com- on the first day of July, 1929. mencement 2. Sub-section (1) of section seven of the Liquor Licence Amendment Ordinance, 1924, is hereby amended by the addition thereto of sec. 7 of of the following words :- Cap. 111 "and, if an application for a certificate for the same licence in respect of the same premises has been refused within the last preceding twelve months, stating some substantial reason for the grant of such certificate which was not before the Board or the District Commissioner on such previous application." 3. Section twenty-five of the Liquor Licence Ordinance, 1924, Amendment is hereby amended- of sec. 25 of Cap. 111 (a) by the insertion in sub-section (1) between the words No. 7 of 1925 "sold for consumption on" and the words "the premises of the words or off," and No. 15 of 1929. Liquor Licence (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. (b) by the insertion in sub-section (4) between paragraphs (a) and (b) of the following paragraph:- "(aa) the holder of an Occasional Licence irom selling any intoxicating liquor in accordance with the terms of his licence between the hours specified therein by the Colonial Treasurer after consultation with the Commissioner of Police, or." Amendment 4. Section twenty-seven of the Liquor Licence Ordinance, of sec. 27 of 1924, is hereby amended- Cap. 111 (a) by the insertion between the words "or quarrelsome" and the words "or riotous" of the words "or disorderly," and (b) by the addition thereto of the following sub-section, the first part thereof being numbered accordingly,- "(2) If a licence holder is charged with any contravention of this section, and it is proved that any person was drunk or guilty of any violent, quarrelsome, disorderly or riotous conduct on his premises, it shall lie on the licence holder to prove that he and the persons employed by him took all reasonable steps for preventing drunkenness or violent, quarrelsome, disorderly or riotous conduct (as the case may be) on the premises." Passed in the Legislative Council this thirty-first day of May, in the year of Our Lord One thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.P. 121331HJ27. Forestry (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929, COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE, No. 16 of 1929. In His Majesty's name I assent L.to this Ordinance this eleventh day of June, 1929, M. A. YOUNG, Acting Governor. AN :ORDINANCE to Amend the Forestry ap. 74 Ordinance, 1924. (1st ,Jan uary, 1929.) Date of com- mencement BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of the Colony of Sierra Leone, :with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:- 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Forestry (Amendment) Short title -Ordinance, 1929, and shall be deemed to have come into operation and com- on thefirst day of January, 1929. mencement 2. The Forestry Ordinance, 1924, is hereby amended by the Amendment insertion after section fifteen of the following heading and of Cap.74by ction insertion of ecton heading and CLEARANCE LICENCES." new section "15A. (1) Notwithstanding anything in this Ordinance or Power of any Order or Rules contained therein or made thereunder Governor to to the contrary, it shall be lawful for the Governor to grant a clear- grant a-licence (in this section referred to as a clearance ance licence licence) to any person to clear any part of a forest reserve or restricted area where such clearance is required for the purposes of mining or prospecting, making or widening a road, surveying or securing a supply of water. No. 16 of 1929. Forestry (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. Discretionof (2) The Governor may grant or refuse to grant a Governor clearance licence as he in his absolute discretion may absolute think fit, and the Governor may refuse to grant such a licence without assigning any reason. Conditions (3) A clearance licence may be granted for such licence period and subject to such exceptions and conditions as the Governor may think fit. On the licence holder failing to comply with any such condition the Governor may revoke such licence. Fee and (4) There shall be paid into the Treasury in respect royalty of a clearance licence such fee and such royalty, if any, as the Governor may think fit to exact. In any case where a royalty is exacted in respect of any clearance licence authorizing the clearance of any part of a forest reserve or restricted area on lands which are under the jurisdiction of a tribal authority, the royalty shall be paid by the Treasurer to the Paramount Chief, or, if part of the forest reserve or restricted area to be cleared is under the jurisdiction of more than one tribal authority, the royalty shall be paid to the Paramount Chiefs in such proportions as the Conservator of Forests may advise. Where any royalty or part thereof is paid to a Paramount Chief under this sub-section, he shall, if any persons other than the natives of his chiefdom generally, have any rights which are affected by the clearance, pay to such persons out of such royalty or part thereof such sum as shall compensate such persons for the detriment to such rights; the balance shall be deemed to be money belonging to tne chiefdom, and the Paramount Chief shall use or hold the same in trust accordingly. Subject to the provisions of this sub-section all fees and royalties paid in respect of clearance licences shall form part of the general revenue. Authority (5) A clearance licence shall not be deemed to grant conferred by to the licence holder the trees felled or otherwise dealt clearance licence with in pursuance of such licence, or to authorize the removal of such trees except for such distance as may be necessary having regard to the work in respect of which the clearance licence was granted. Property in (6) Where trees are felled or otherwise dealt with in trees filled pursuance of a clearance licence on a forest reserve or restricted area such trees shall- (a) if the forest reserve or restricted area is in the Colony, be deemed to belong to the Crown, and (b) if the forest reserve or restricted area is in the Protectorate, be deemed to belong to the tribal authority having jurisdiction over the lands on which they were growing ; No. 16 of Forestry (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. 1929. Provided that in so far as any persons, other than the natives of the chiefdom generally, would have had a right to fell such trees or to the produce thereof, such trees shall be deemed to belong to such persons ; Provided further that it shall be lawful- (i) for the Governor to direct the appropriation of any other of such trees for the purpose of constructing or repairing bridges or other public works within the tribal authority's chiefdom, and (ii) for a forest officer to destroy or permit the destruction of trees of no substantial economic value. (7) In this section "trees" shall be deemed to Definition include everything growing on or in the ground." Passed in the Legislative Council this first day of June in the year of Our Lord One thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine. J. L. JOHN, Clerk qf Legislative Council, THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.P. A/7120. Pensions (Widows and Orphans) (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 17 of 1929. In His Majesty's name I assent Ls to this Ordinance this sixth day of December, 1929. J. BYRNE, Brigadier-General, Governor. Cap. 148. AN O DINANCE to Amend the Pensions (Widows and Orphans) Ordinance, 1924. Date of cor ( 9th December, 1929.) mencement. BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of the Colony of Sierra Leone with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :- Short title 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Pensions (Widows and Orphans) (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. Amendment 2. Section twenty-seven of the Pensions (Widows and of sec. 27 of Orphans) Ordinance, 1924. shall be renumbered section twenty- Cap. 148 No. 33 of seven, sub-section (1) and shall be amended by the addition of 1926. the following new sub-section:- Cessation of (2) If a contributor under this Ordinance is appointed payments on to the service of another West African Government, transfer. and he is not in receipt of salary from this Govern- ment, he shall cease to contribute under this Ordinance as from the date of such appointment." Passed in the Legislative Council this twentieth day of November, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, M.P. Bo139f Legislative ounci. Clerk of Legislative Council. Public Officers Guarantee Fund (Amendment) Ordinance, 1999. COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 18 of 1929. In His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this sixth day of December, 1929. J. BYRNE, Brigadier-General, Governor. AN ORDINANCE to Amend the Public Cap. 177. Officers Guarantee Fund Ordinance, 1924. (9th December, 1929.) Date of commence ment. BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of the Colony of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:- 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Public Officers Short title. Guarantee Fund (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. 2. Section seventeen of the Public Officers Guarantee Fund Amendment Ordinance, 1924 (hereinafter referred to as the Principal Ordin- of sec. 17of ance) shall be amended by the deletion of the-words "the of Cap. 177. Treasurer, or in the case of an officer in the Railway Department, by the Chief Accountant of the Railway," and by the substitution therefore of the words "a Government Auditor." Repeal and 3. Section twenty-one of the Principal Ordinance shall be replacement repealed and the following section substituted therefore :- of sec. 21 of Cap. 177. No. 18 of 1929. Public Oficers Guarantee Fund (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. Provision "21. If the whole or any part of the amount due from an where the officer in default is recovered by the Government o amount due from an by the Government of the Colony of the Gambia officer is either from such officer in default or from an officer recovered or officers other than the officer in default after from him or payment has been made out of the Fund, the Govern- other officers. nient or the Government of the Colony of the Gambia shall refund to the Directors- "(a) if the whole amount due from the officer in default has been paid by the directors, an amount equal to the amount so recovered, and (b) if a part only of the amount due from the officer in default has been paid by the Directors, any amount which the Government or the Govern- ment of the Colony of the Gambia may have in hand after deducting the amount due by the officer in default from the total made up by the amount recovered as aforesaid and the amount paid by the Directors." Amendment 4. Section twenty-five (b) of the Principal Ordinance shall be ofsec.25(b) amended by the deletion of the word "three" and the of Cap 177. substitution therefore of the word "two." Passed in the Legislative Council this twentieth day of November, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.P. B159129, Auditor Pensions Ordinance, 1929. COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 19 of 1929. In His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this sixth day of December, 1929. J. BYRNE, Brigadier-General, Governor. AN ORDINANCE to Provide for the Payment of Pensions to Certain Officers Formerly in the Service of the Government of the Colony as Auditor and Assistant Auditor. (9th December, 1929.) Date of com- mencement. BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of the Colony of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:- 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Auditor Pensions Short title. Ordinance, 1929. 2. Pensions at the annual rates set out in the third column Grant of of the Schedule hereto are hereby declared to be charged on pensions. and payable out of the revenue of the Colony to the officers opposingly named in the first column as from the dates set out in the second column of the said Schedule. No. 19 of 1929. Auditor Pensions Ordinance, 1929. SCHEDULE. Name of Officer. Date. Annual Rate. s. d. Bertram Evelyn Hanson ... 6th April, 399 2 1 1926. Herbert St. John Sheppard ... 22nd February, 4 2 1 1929. Passed in the Legislative Council this twentieth day of November, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.P. BAl0823. Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) (Aedmendmnt) Ordinance, 1929. COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 20 of 1929. SIn His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this sixth day of December, 1929. J. BYRNE, Brigadier-General, Governor. AN OHRDTIANCE' to Amend the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Ordinance, ap.-19. 1924. (9th December, 1929.) Date of com- mencement. BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of the Colony of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:- 1. This Ordinance may be cited as. the Maintenance Orders Short title (Facilities for Enforcement) (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929, and and applica- shall.apply to the Colony and Protectorate. tion. 2. Section twelve of the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Repeal and Enforcement) Ordinance, 1924, is hereby repealed and the replacement following section is substituted therefore :-Cap 119. "12. Where the Governor is satisfied that reciprocal Power to provisions have been made by the Legislature of any extend appli- cation of British possession or any territory under His Majesty's Ordinance protection for the enforcement within such possession to other or territory of Maintenance Orders made by courts in British the Colony or Prbtectorate, the Governor may by possessions and protect- Proclamation extend this Ordinance to such possession ed territo- ries. No. 20 of 1929. Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) (Amendment) Ordinance. 1929. or territory, and this Ordinance shall thereupon apply in respect of such possession or territory as though the reference to England or Ireland were references to such possession or territory and the references to the Secretary of State for the Colonies were references to the Governor of such possession or territory." Passed in the Legislative Council this twentieth day of November, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.P. S7?7129. Civzl Marriage (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 21 of 1929. In His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this sixth day of December, 1929. J. BYRNE, Brigadier-General, Governor. AN OIRDINANCE to Amend the Civil ap. Marriage Ordinance, 1924. (9th December, 1929.) Date of commence- ment. BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of the Colony of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:- 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Civil Marriage Short title (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. 2. Schedule E to the Civil Marriage Ordinance, 1924, shall be Amendment amended by deleting the words and figures of Schedule E to Cap. 29. "For searching a marriage register book for each name within ten years ... ... Nil. For every year beyond ... ... 0 s. Od." and by substituting therefore the following words and figures :- For searching the Marriage Register Books for every half hour or fraction thereof during which the search shall continue ... ... 0 Is. Od." No. 21 of 1929. Civil Marriage (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. Passed in the Legislative Council this twentieth day of November, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.P. J12729. (1980) Appropriation Ordinance, 1929. COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 22 of 1929. In His Majesty's name I assent Sto this Ordinance this twenty- ninth day of November, 1929. J. BYRNE, Brigadier-General, Governor. AN ORDINANCE to Provide for the Service of the Colony of Sierra Leone for the Year 1930. Dae o (1st January, 1980.) comence- WHEREAS it is necessary to make provision for the Service Preamble. of the Colony of Sierra Leone for the year 1930; BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Governor of the Colony Enacting of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative clause. Council thereof, as follows:- 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the (1930) Appropriation Short title. Ordinance, 1929. 2. The sum of one million and seventy-eight thousand 1,078,367 three hundred and sixty-seven pounds shall be and it is hereby granted for the service granted to His Majesty the King, His Heirs and Successors for of the and during the year nineteen hundred and thirty and the Colony. same shall be applied and expended in the manner herein described, and for the several services set forth in the First and Second Schedules hereto. 3. The said sum of one million and seventy-eight thousand 1,078,367 three hundred and sixty-seven pounds shall be and is hereby made a declared to be charged upon and made payable from and out of Reaenuefor the Revenue and other funds of the said Colony for the the year year nineteen hundred and thirty, and the payment thereof 1930. shall be taken to begin and commence on and immediately after the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty. (1930) Appropriation Ordinance, 1929. No. 22 of 1929. Treasurer's authority for payment. Excess of 5. The amount from time to time paid for and in respect expenditure. of the expenditure authorized in section two of this Ordinance shall not exceed in the gross the sum of one million and seventy-eight thousand three hundred and sixty-seven pounds from the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty inclusive, and any balances remaining unissued at the end of the year nineteen hundred and thirty shall lapse and not be available for making payments in the following year. THE FIRST SCHEDULE. No. OF HEAD OF EXPENDITURE. SUM VOTED. ITEM. Charge on Account Pensions ... Governor ... Secretariat and Leg Provincial Admini Treasury ... Customs ... Audit Port and Marine Judicial ... Law Officers Police ... Prisons ... Medical ... Health Veterinary Education Post Office Royal West Africai Railway ... Motor Bus Service Motor Repair Shop Agricultural Forestry Survey ... Carried i of Public Debt ... islature ... stratio ... ... i Frontier Force forwardd ... 18,514 39,000 7.800 25,813 77,661 11,097 24,457 6,340 6,683 11,809 5,376 24,913 13,470 71,462 26,513 967 60,390 21,641 43,485 45,429 7.402 1,914 27,708 6,399 12,436 598.679 4. The Treasurer is hereby authorized and required from time to time, upon the Warrant or Order of the Governor to pay out of the Revenue and other funds of the said Colony, for the several services specified in the First and Second Schedules hereto, the sum of one million and seventy-eight thousand three hundred and sixty-seven pounds, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and thirty. (1930) Appropriation Ordinance, 1929. THE FIRST SCHEDULE-continued. No. 22 of 1929. No. OF HEAD OF EXPENDITURE. SUM VOTED. ITEM. Brought forward ... 598,679 26 Geological ... .. ... 4,306 27 Miscellaneous Services ... ... 13,521 28 Public Works Department ... ... 51,323 29 Public Works Recurrent ... ... 74,891 30 Public Works Extraordinary ... 25,532 31 Special Expenditure from Surplus Balances ... ... ... 65,125 833,377 THE SECOND SCHEDULE. Railway ... ... 290,419 Leas amount provided for Head 20 in the First Schedule ... ... 45,429 244,990 Passed in the Legislative Council this twenty-seventh day of November, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, * Clerk of Legislative Council. M.P. B1llBI29. Interpretation (Amendment) Ordinanc, 1929. COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 23 of 1929. In His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this sixth day of December, 1929. J. BYRNE, Brigadier-General, Governor. Cap. 103. AN ORDINANCE to Amend the Interpretation Ordinance, 1924. Date of commence- (Ist January, 1930.) ment. BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of the Colony of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:- Short title, 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Interpretation construction (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929; it shall be read and construed and com- mencement. as one with the Interpretation Ordinance, 1924 (in this Ordinance Cap. 103 referred to as the Principal Ordinance) and shall come into operation on the first day of January, 1930. Changes in 2. (1) Wherever, whether by virtue of section 13 (1) of the titles of Principal Ordinance or otherwise, the expression "Deputy ceran o Director, Sanitary Service" or Deputy Director of Sanitary authorities Service" occurs the expression Deputy Director of the Health and conse- Service shall be deemed to be substituted therefore. quential changes in (2) Wherever, whether by virtue of section 13 (1) of the certain other Principal Ordinance or otherwise, the expression Senior Sanitary expressions. Officer occurs, the expression Senior Health Officer shall be deemed to be substituted therefore. No. 23 of Interpretation (Amendment): Ordinance, 1929. 1929. (3) Wherever the expressions "Sanitary Department", "Sanitary Authority," Special Sanitary Authority," "sanitary district," sanitary service and sanitary purposes occur, the expressions "Health Department," Health Authority," "Special Health Authority," "health district," "health service" and "health purposes" shall be deemed to be respectively substituted therefore. Passed in the Legislative Council this twenty-eighth day of November in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.P. MI3t29. Arms and Ammunition (No. 2) (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929, f-1 COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 24 of 1929. SIn His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this sixth day of December, 1929. J. BYRNE, Brigadier-General, Governor. Cap. 11. AN ORDINANCE to Amend the Arms and Ammunition Ordinance, 1924. Date of commence- (9th December, 1929.) BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of the Colony of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :- Short title. 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Arms and Ammunition (No. 2) (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. Amendment 2. Section two of the Arms and Ammunition Ordinance, 1924 of sec. 2 of (hereinafter' called the Principal Ordinance) shall be amended as Cap. 11. follows :- (i) By deleting the words- Prescribed' means prescribed by regulations made under section thirty-three of this Ordinance." and by substituting therefore the words- S' Prescribed' means prescribed by rules made under section thirty of this Ordinance." No. 24 of Arms and Ammunition (No. 2) (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. 1929. (ii) By adding the following definitions- 'Percussion caps' in the following sections means percussion caps for use in connection with cap guns." 3. Sub-section (1) (c) of section seven of the Principal Amendment Ordinance shall be amended by deleting the words :-of se. 7 (1) (c) of Cap. or any gun which has either before or after the 11. commencement of this Ordinance been converted from a flint-lock gun into a cap gun." 4. Section ten of the Principal Ordinance shall be amended Amendment as follows :- of sec. 10 of (i) By inserting in sub-section (2) after the words flint- lock guns" the words "cap guns, shot gun cartridges, percussion caps"; and after the words "such guns" the words cartridges, caps." (ii) By inserting in the final paragraph after the words flint-lock guns the words and cap guns." 5. Sub-section (2) of section eleven of the Principal Ordin- Amendment ance shall be amended by inserting after the words "flint-lock of sec. 11 (2) guns the words cap guns, shot gun cartridges, percussion caps." of Ca 6. Section twelve of the Principal Ordinance shall be Amendment amended by inserting after the words "flint-lock guns" the f sec. 12of words "cap guns, shot gun cartridges, percussion caps." 7. Section thirteen of the Principal Ordinance shall be Amendment amended as follows :- Cap. 1of (i) By inserting after the words "flint-lock guns" the words "cap guns, shot gun cartridges, percussion caps."' (ii) By inserting after the words quantity of the words shot gun cartridges, percussion'caps and." (iii) By inserting after the words "the guns the words cartridges, caps." 8. Sub-section (3) of section fourteen of the Principal Ordin- Amendment ance shall be amended by inserting after the words "of flint- f 14 (3) of Cap. 11. lock guns the words "cap guns, shot gun cartridges, percussion caps "; and after the words "bear flint-lock guns" the words ' pap guns or other firearms." 9. Section sixteen of the Principal Ordinance shall be Amendment amended as follows :- of sec. 16 of Cap, 11, (i) By inserting after the words flint-lock gun" wherever they occur the words or cap gun," No. 24 -,ot 1929. Arms and Ammunition (No. 2) (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. (ii) By deleting in sub-section (3) the words "section nineteen of Schedule J," and by substituting therefore the words sub-section (2) of section eighteen of Schedule K." Repealt oa 10. Section seventeen of the Principal Ordinance is hereby replacement of sec. 17 of repealed and the following section is substituted therefore : Cap. 11. "Permits to 17. (1) The Commissioner of Police or a District Com- purchase missioner may in his discretion issue:- common gunpowder (a) a permit to purchase common gunpowder to any peroussion person who shall hold a licence to bear a flint- caps." lock gun or who shall require such gunpowder for specified blasting operations, or (b) a permit to purchase common: gunpowder and percus- sion caps to any person who shall hold a licence to bear a cap gun." Provided that such person shall account to the satisfaction of such officer for the disposal of any gunpowder or percussion caps previously purchased or otherwise obtained, under the authorization of any such permit and shall satisfy such officer that such gunpowder is intended for his own use. (2) Such permits shall be in the forms set out respectively in Schedules 1 and J to this Ordinance, or as near thereto as circumstances permit; they shall be signed by the officer who issues them, and shall be the authority for the withdrawal from a private warehouse of such quantities of gunpowder or of percussion caps as are therein specified. Amendment 11. Section eighteen of the Principal Ordinance shall be of sec. 18 of amended as follows :- Cap. 11. (i) By the renumbering thereof as sub-section (1). (ii) By inselritig in sub-section (1) after the words flint- lock guns the words cap guns, shot gun cartridges, percussion caps"; and after the words "any gun" the words "percussion caps." (iii) By adding thereto the following new sub-section:- (2) If the holder of such licence shall sell any shot gun cartridges to any person not holding a licence to bear a firearm in accordance with sub-section (1) of section eighteen of Schedule K, he shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance." Repeal of de. 22,(2) 12. Sub-sections (2) and (3) of section twenty-two of the ap.nd Principal Ordinance are here(3)y repealed. Cap. 11. Principal Ordinance are hereby repealed. No. 24 4 Arms and Ammunition (No. 2) (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. 1929. 13. Section thirty of the Principal Ordinance shall be Amendmaeut amended by substituting the letter K for the letter J in the of section fourth line thereof. 30 of Cap.L. 14. Schedule F of the Principal Ordinance shall be amended Amendmeot by inserting in the title thereto after the words FLINT- of Schedule LOCK GUNS" the words "CAP GUNS, SHOT GUN Fof Cap.11. CARTRIDGES, PERCUSSION CAPS." 15. Schedule J of the Principal Ordinance shall be re-lettered Amendment " and amended as follows :- of Schedule K of Cap. 11. (a) In section eighteen- (i) by inserting in sub-section (1) thereof after the words "flint-lock gun" the words "'or cap gun "; (ii) by inserting in sub-section (2) after the words "flint-lock gun where they first occur the words "'or cap gun" and after the words "flint-lock" where they secondly occur the word and asterisk cap "* ; (iii) by adding to sub-section (2) the following foot- note :- *Strike out the word which is not applicable. (b) By renumbering section 20 as section 19. 16. Schedule H of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Repeal and repealed.and the following substituted therefore :- replacement of Schedule H of Cap. 11. "SCHEDULE H. Sec. 16 (2) PERMIT TO PURCHASE A FLINT-LOCK OR CAP GUN. Permission is hereby granted to of to purchase or otherwise obtain flint-lock* one ---- k gun for his personal use. cap Dated at this day of 19 Commissioner (f PIolice. (in the Freetown Police District). District Commissionfr. (elsewhere in the Colony or Protecto ate)." *Strike out the word which is not applicable. No. 24 of 1929. Arms and Anmmunition (Vo. 2) (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. Amendment f Cap l11by 17. The Principal Ordinance shall be amended by the addition of addition of the following Schedule :- new Sche- dule SCHEDULE J. Sec. 17 (2). PERMIT TO PURCHASE PERCUSSION CAPS AND COMMON GUNPOWDE1R. Permission is hereby granted to of bei'g a holder of a licence to bear a cap gun to purchase of common gunpowder, percussion caps. Dated at this day of ,19 Commi l issioter of Police (in the Freetown Police District). District Commissioner. (elsewhere in the Colony or Protectorate)." iPssed in the Legislative Council this twenty-eighth day of November, in the year of Onr Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislttive Council THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative council l and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, h'l'r of Legislative ('outwil M.P. X18129. (1928) Supplementary Appropriation Ordinance, 1929. COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 25 of 1929, In His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this seventh day of December, 1929. J. BYRNE, Brigadier-General, Governor. AN ORDINANCE tO Legalise Certain Payments made in the year 1928 for the Public Service of the Colony in Excess of the Appropriations authorized by Law. (9th December, 1929.) Date of comence ment. WHEREAS certain expenditure has been incurred for the Preamble. Public Service of the Colony in the year 1928 in excess of the appropriations authorized for that purpo-e ; AND WHEREAS it is expedient that such expenditure should be sanctioned by Law; BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Governor of the Colony of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :- 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the (1928) Supplementary Short title. Appropriation Ordinance, 1929. 2. The sums of money set forth in the schedule hereto annexed, Sanction for having been expended for the services therein respectively expenditure mentioned beyond the amount sanctioned and appropriated by the in 1928 in excess of (1928) Appropriation Ordinance, 1927, the same are hereby ppropria- declared to have been duly and necessarily paid, laid out and tion expended for the Service of the Colony in the year 1928, and are authorized hereby approved, allowed and granted in addition to the amount by No. 32 of mentioned in the Ordinance aforesaid. (1928) Supplementary Approprirarion Ordinance, 1929. SCHEDULE. Head of Service. Supplementary Appropriation authorized. I s. d. Pensions ... ... .. ... 4,926 9 7 Governor ... ... ... ... --.. 562 4 6 Treasury ... ... ... .. ... 423 1 6 Port and Marine ... ... ... ... 425 1 1 Post Office ... ... ... ... 364 13 1 Survey ... ... ... ... .. 2,678 19 5 Geological ... ... ... ... 290 2 6 Miscellaneous Services ... ... ... 7.914 16 5 Public Works Extraordinary ... ... 1,416 14 2 Special Expenditure from Surplus Balances ... 2,638 4 1 Motor Omnibus Service ... ... ... 47 6 0 General Motor Repair Shop ... .. ... 234 7 10 121,922 0 2 Passed in the Legislative Council this twenty-eighth day of November in the year of Our Lood one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Counwil. M.P. J150629. No. 25 of 1929. Trade Marks (Amendmnnt) Ordinance, 1929. COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 26 of 1929. In His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this seventh day of December, 1929. J. BYRNE, Brigadier- General, Governor. AN ORDINANCE to Amend the Trade Marks C '-.209 Ordinances, 1924. Date of (9th December, 1929.) cD o fe- ment. BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of the Colony of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :- 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Trade Marks (Amend- Short title ment) Ordinance, 1929, and shall apply to the Colony andand applica- the Protectorate. t 2. Section fifty-seven of the Trade Marks Ordinance, 1924, Substitution is hereby repealed and the following section substituted of new Sec. therefor-for Cap. 209 therefore :sec. 57. "57. (1) Any person being the registered proprietor of Registra- a trade mark registered whether in Part A or Part B tion of of the register in the United Kingdom under the British trade Trade Mark Acts 1905 to 1919 or any Act amending marks. or substituted for those Acts, or any person deriving his right from such registered proprietor by assign- ment, transmission, or other operation of law, shall No. 26 of 1929. Trade Marks (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. be entitled to registration of such trade mark in the corresponding part of the register kept under the Trade Marks Ordinances, 1924, at any time during the existence of the registration in the United Kingdom, and such registration under these Ordin- ances shall have the same date as the application for registration in the United Kingdom, and the rights and privileges thereby conferred shall continue in force only so long as the registration in the United Kingdom remains in force: Provided that no action for infringement of the trade mark shall be entertained in respect of any use of the trade mark prior to the date of issue of the certificate of registration in the Colony. (2) An application for registration of a trade-mark under this section shall be made to the Registrar on the prescribed form and shall be accompanied by a certified representation of the trade-mark, a certificate of an officer of the United Kingdom Patent Office giving full particulars of the registration of the trade-mark in the United Kingdom, and by a stereotyped block of the trade-mark. Repeal of 3. Section four of the Trade Marks (Amendment) Ordinance, Cap. 210 1924, is hereby repealed. sec. 4. Amendment 4. The Schedule of the Trade Marks (Amendment) Ordinance, of Schedule 1924, is hereby amended by the deletion of the figures to Cap. 210. and words: "57...............Registration of British Trade Marks." Passed in the Legislative Council this twenty-eighth day of November in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council.. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said BilL J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. U.p. JJ8I2Q. Palm Wine (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 27 of 1929. In His Majesty's name I assent to. this Ordinance this seventh day of December, 1929. J. BYRNE, Brigadier-General, Governor. AN OR)INANCE to Amend the Palm Wine e41 of Ordinance, 1926. (9th December, 1929.) Date of com- mencement. BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of.the Colony of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:- 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Palm Wine (Amend- Short title. ment) Ordinance, 1929. 2. Sub-section one of section five of the Palm Wine Ordin- Amendment ance, 1926, shall be amended by the addition at the end thereof of Ordinance No. 41 of of the words;- 1926, sec 1Y26, sec. 5 "and shall pay to the licensing authority the prescribed() fee." 3. Section nineteen of the Palm Wine Ordinance, 1926, shall Amendment be amended by inserting after the word paid the words "n of Ordinance applications for licences." 6, sec, 9. No. 27 of 1929. Palm Wine (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. Passed in the Legislative Council this twenty-eighth day of November in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIn PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me' with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.P. 11441 Births and Deaths Registration (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 28 of 1929. In His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this seventh day of December, 1929. J. BYRNE, Brigadier-General. Governor. AN ORDINANCE to Amend the Births and Cap. 16. Deaths Registration Ordinance, 1924. (1st July, 1930.) Date of com- mencement. BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of the Colony of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :- 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Births and Deaths Short title Registration (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929, and shall comeand com- into operation on the first day of July, 1930. mencement. 2. Section one of the Births and Deaths Registration Amendment Ordinance, 1924 (in this Ordinance referred to as the Principal *f sec. 1 of Ordinance) is hereby amended by deleting the words and shall Cap. 16. be read as one with the General Registration Ordinance, 1924," Cap. 89. and the marginal note to the said section is hereby amended by deleting the words "and construction." 3. Section two of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended- Amendment (a) by deleting the definitions of Registrar-General" sc. 2 of and Registrar and substituting therefore the follow- ing definitions:- "Chief Registrar" means the Deputy Director of the Health Service, and includes any person appointed No. 28 of 1929. Births and Deaths Registration (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. by name or ex officio by the Governor to be Deputy Chief Registrar; "Registrar" means Registrar of Births and Deaths or of Births or of Deaths, and includes a Deputy Registrar. (b) by inserting between the definitions of "District" and "Particulars required to be registered" the following definition :- "Health District" means a town or place which has been declared-to be a health district under the provisions of section three of the Public Health No. 26 of (Protectorate) Ordina.nce, 1926. 1926. (c) by deleting in the definition of Registry Office" the words Registrar-General and substituting therefore the words Chief Registrar " (d) by deleting in the definition of "' Freetown" the figures "1924" and substituting therefore the figures "1927," and bv deleting the marginal note "Cap. 80" substitu- ting therefore '" No. 38 of 1927 and (e) by adding at the end of the section the following definitions:- "Native" means any member of the aboriginal races or tribes of Africa, ordinarily resident within the Protectorate, whether employed in the service of His Majesty or not. "Non-native means any person who is not subject to a Tribal Authority in the Protectorate, Registration "' means registration by the Chief Registrar ,r any person declared by this Ordin- ance to be an officer of. or under the control of, the Chief registrar. Amendment 4. Sub-section (4) of section three, section twelve, sub-section of sees. 3 (1) of section four'ten, section fifteen, section twenty-three, (4),12,14(l),section twenty-four, section twenty-five, section twenty-six, 15, 23 24, 25, 26, 27 (1), 45, sub-section (1) of section twenty-seven, section forty-five, section 46, 47, of, forty-six and section torty-seven of, and Schedules N and P to, and Sche- the Principal Orditnance are hereby amended by substituting for dules N and the words "Registrar-General" the words "Chief Registrar" o, Cap. 16. wherever the said words occur in the said sections, sub-sections and Schedules. Amendment 5. Sub-section (1) of section three of the Principal Ordinance of sec. 3 of is hereby amended- Cap. 16, (a) by deleting the words "or any part thereof" and substituting therefore the words "or the Protectorate or a'iy part of the Colony or the Protectorate; No. 28 of Births and Deaths Registration (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. 1929. (b) by inserting after the word Colony at the second place where the said word occurs the words or the Protectorate ", and (c) by adding to the said sub-section the words "provided that no district shall comprise a part of the Colony and a part of the Protectorate." 6. Section four of the Principal Ordinance is hereby repealed Repeal and and the following section is substituted therefore :- replacement of sec. 4 of "4. The Governor shall from time to time appoint in Cap. 16. writing fit and proper persons to be Registrars of "Appoint- Births and Deaths for each district created under ment ofDis- section three and Registrars of Births or of Deaths or trict Regis- of Births and Deaths, as the case may be, for each trars, etc. health district with regard to which an Order in Council has been made under sub-section (2) of scetion 38A, and may appoint for each district or each such health district one or more Deputy Registrars to act for and under the control of the Registrar, and may by writing at any time revoke any appointment made under this section." 7. The Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by deleting Amendment the heading to Part II and by substituting therefore as the of Cap. 16 heading the words Registration of Births in the Colony." by changing heading to Part II. 8. Sections six and seven of the Principal Ordinance are Part I hereby amended by substituting for the word "forty-two" the fmenme nt6 word fourteen." and 7 of Cap. 16. 9. Section nine of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended Amendment by deleting the words except that if, in pursuance of a written of sec. 9 of requisition, he registers the same at the residence of the person Cap. 16. making such requisition or at the house in which the birth took place, he shall, unless the birth took place in a public institution, receive the appointed fee." 10. Section sixteen of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Amendment amended by deleting the words or to the Registrar-General as of sec. 16 of the case may be" and substituting therefore the words "or, if Cap. 16. such infant was not born within a district, to the Chief Registrar." 11. The Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by deleting Amendment the heading in Part III and substituting therefore as the heading of Cap. 16 the words Registration of Deaths in the Colony." by changing, heading to Part III. 12. Sections eighteen, nineteen, twenty and twenty-six of the Amendment. Principal Ordinance are hereby amended by substituting for the of sees. 18, word "five" the word "three." 19, 20and 26' of Cap. 16. No. 28 of 1929. Births and Deaths Registration (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. Amendment 13. Section twenty-two of the Principal Ordinance is hereby of sec. 22 of amended by deleting the words except that if, in pursuance Cap. 16 of a written requisition, he registers the same at the residence of the person making such requisition, or at the house where the deceased died, he shall, unless the death took place in a public institution, receive the appointed fee." Amendment 14. Section twenty-seven of the Principal Ordinance is of sec. 27 of hereby amended by deleting sub-section (4). Cap. 16. Amendment 15. The Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by deleting of Cap. 16 the heading to Part IV and substituting therefore as the heading by changing the words "Special provisions as to certain districts." heading to Part IV r 16. Sections twenty-eight and twenty-nine of the Principal Reveal and replacement Ordinance are hereby repealed and the following sections are of sees. 28 substituted therefore :- and 29 of "28. (1) This part of this Ordinance shall apply only Cap. 16 Application to Freetown, Kissy, Congo Town, Murray Town and Wilberforce. of Part IV. S(2) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council by Order to declare that this part of this Ordinance or any provisions thereof shall no longer apply to Freetown, Kissy, Congo Town, Murray Town and Wilberforce or to any one or more of the said places. "(3) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council by Order to apply this part of this Ordinance or any of the provisions thereof to any other district." Registrar's "29. It shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint Officer. for each district to which this part of this Ordinance applies a fit and proper person, who shall be called the Registrar's Officer, and likewise to remove such Registrai's Officer at his pleasure." Amendment 17. Section thirty-three of the Principal Ordinance is hereby of sec. 33 of amended by deleting the words "except that if, in pursuance Cap. 16. of a written requisition, he registers the same at the residence of the person making such requisition or at the house in which the still-birth took place he shall, unless the still-birth took place in a public institution, receive the appointed fee for registering a birth at a private residence." Amendment 18. The Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the of Cap. 16 insertion of the following part after Part IV:- by insertion of new part "PART IVA. after Part IV. REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS IN THE PROTECTORATE. "Application of "38A. (1) The provisions of this Ordinance shall apply in provisions of Ordinance in the case of all non-natives born or dying in a district of the case of non- natives in the Protectorate created under section three of this Ordinance in the Protectorate." 81 i No. 28 of BirtAs and Deaths eegistration (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. 1929. same manner as they apply in the case of all persons born or dying in such a district in the Colony, but with the modifications specified in the next succeeding section. (2) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Conncil, Power of on the request of the Paramount Chief concerned, by Order Governor in to declare that the provisions of this Ordinance shall apply Council to apply pro- visions of (a) in the case of all natives born, or Ordinance in case of (b) in the case of all natives dying, or natives in sanitary dis= (c) in the case of all natives born or dying in any health trict. district, and thereupon the said provisions shall apply accordingly, and with respect to the said health district as they apply with respect to a district, but with the modifications specified in the next succeeding section. The Governor in Council may at any time revoke an Order made under this sub-section. 38B. For the purposes of the provisions of the last Modifica- preceding section the provisions of this Ordinance shall be tions of pro- subject to the following modifications :- viions in (2) For the period of fourteen days mentioned in sections their appli- six and seven, there shall be substituted a period of cation is the Case of per- twenty-one days; sons in the (b) For the period of forty-eight hours mentioned in Protectorate. section sixteen there shall be substituted a period of seven days; (c) For the period of three days mentioned in sections eighteen, nineteen, twenty and twenty-six there shall be substituted a period of seven days ; (d) The fees referred to in section ten, sub-section (1) of section thirteen and section forty-two shall not be payable ; (e) For the reference to a Coroner in section twenty-six and in sub-section (3) of section twenty-seven there shall be substituted a reference to a District Commissioner. 19. Section thirty-nine of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Amendment amended by deleting the words "to a penalty not exceeding of section 39 forty shillings for each offence" and substituting therefore the of Cap. 16. words "for each offence to a penalty not exceeding five pounds or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a period not exceeding one month." No. 28 of 1929. Births and Deaths Registration (Amendment) Ordinance. 1929. Repeal and 20. Section forty-one of the Principal Ordinance is hereby replacement of sec. 41 of repealed and the following section is substituted therefor:- Cap. 16. Permissive "41. Where any native is born or dies in the Protectorate registration. within a district created under section three or within a health district with regard to which an Order in Council has been made under section 38A, then notwithstanding that it may not be necessary, having regard to the provisions of this Ordinance. that information should be given to a Registrar, any person who would have been required to inform a Registrar if the giving of information to the Registrar were necessary, may, if he so thinks fit. give information of such birth or death to the Registrar of the district or health district, as the case may ke, and such Registrar shall, on receipt from such informant of the appointed fee, register the particulars hereinbefore required to be registered, and, as regards the registration of such birth or death, the provisions of this Ordinance, so far as the same are applicable to registration under this section, shall apply." Amendment 21. The Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the of Cap. 16 insertion of the following part after Part VI:- by insertion of new Part PART VIA. after Part CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION, ETC. VI Office in 41A. The Chief Registrar's Office shall be in Freetown. Freetown." Chief 41B. (1) The Chief Registraia Office shall be the Registrar's Registry for, and depository of, all registers, Office to certificates and records and copies thereof as are be the directed by this Ordinance to be delivered to, and Registry. deposited with, the Chief Registrar, or to be registered at his office, and of all registers, certificates and records and copies thereof relating to the registration of births and deaths which before the first day of July, 1930, were in the custody of the Registrar-General. Registrars to be officers in the Chief Registrar's Department. (2) The Chief Registrar, and every Registrar, shall use such official seal as the Governor may by Order determine. 41c. All Registrars and other registration officers appointed under the provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed to be officers of the department of the Chief Registrar, and shall be under his direction and control, and such Registrars and other officers shall comply with, and conform to, such orders and directions as they may from time to time receive from the Chief Registrar, in addition to the specific duties imposed upon them by this Ordinance. No. 28 of Births and .Deaths Registration (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. 1929. 41D. The Chief Registrar shall cause indexes of all Prepara- registers, certificates, records and copies thereof, tion of indexes. deposited in the Registry, to be made and kept in the exes Registry. Such indexes shall contain such particulars, and shall be prepared in such form, and by such officer or officers, as the Chief Registrar shall from time to time direct. 41E. The Chief Rdgistrar shall furnish, on or before Prepara- the thirty.first day of January in every year, to the tion of Governor, a general abstract of the number of births returns. and deaths registered during the preceding year, in q such form as the Governor may direct. 22. Tha Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the Andment of Cap. 16 by in- insertion after section forty-eight of the following two sertionof two new sections sections :- after section48. 48A. The Chief Registrar and any Registrar or officer Production in the department of the Chief Registrar shall produce of doc- or cause to be produced, any certificate, register or record in his custody on subpoena or order of any competent Court, and on payment of a reasonable sum, to be taxed as the Court may direct, and to be paid to the Chief Registrar on account of the loss of time of the officer by whom such certificate, register or record shall be produced. All such sums received by the Chief Registrar shall be paid into the general revenue of the Colony. 48B. Every copy of an entry relating to a birth or death Certified made under the provisions of this Ordinance, purport- copies of entries to be ing to be signed and sealed in accordance with the receivable as provisions of section forty-seven of this Ordinance evidence. shall be receivable as evidence of the birth or death to which the same relates, without any further or other proof of such entry; but no certified copy shall be of any force or effect which is not so signed and sealed. 23. Section forty-nine of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Amendment amended by adding after the word Magistrate the words "or of section 49 in the Court of a District Commissioner." of Cap. 16. 24. Schedules A, B, D, E, F, L, M and 0 to the Principal Amendment Ordinance are hereby amended by deleting the word Colony of Schedules wherever it occurs in the said Schedules and substituting therefore F, L, and Colony O to Cap. 16. Protectorate." No. 28 of 1929. Births and Deaths Registration (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. Amendment 25. Schedule G to the Principal Ordinance is hereby of Schedule amended by inserting after the word "Coroner" wherever it G to Cap. 16. occurs the words or District Commissioner." Amendment of 26. The Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by deleting cti. 6bnd Schedule H and by substituting therefore the Schedule set out in replacement of the Schedule hereto. Schedule H. Amendment of 27. The Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by deleting Cap. 16 by deletionf Schedule K. Schedule K. Amendment 28. Schedule N to the Principal Ordinance is hereby of Schedule amended by deleting item (a). N to Cap. 16. Amendment 29. Schedule P to the Principal Ordinance is hereby of Schedule amended by deleting item (i) P to Cap. 16 Amendment 30. The General Registration Ordinance, 1924, is hereby of sections 2 amended- ad8 of Cap. (a) by adding to sub-seclion (1) of section two the words provided that this Ordinance shall not be deemed to be supplementary to the Births and Deaths Registra- Cap. 16. tion Ordinance, 1924; (b) and by substituting in section eight for the words "instruments, marriages, births and deaths" the words instruments and marriages." Amendment 31. The Burials Registration (Freetown) Ordinance, 1924, of Cap. 21. is hereby amended by substituting for the words "Registrar- General" the words "Chief Registrar of Births and Deaths" wherever the said words occur in the said Ordinance. Sec. 26. SCHEDULE. Sec. 27. SCHEDULE H. MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF CAUSE OF DEATH. I hereby certify that I have medically attended of* who was (a) apparently or stated to be aged years, that I last saw on the 19 that was then suffering from that died as I am aware, or (by informed, on the day of 19 at (c) and that the cause of death was to the best of my knowledge and belief as herein stated, viz:- Primary Cause. Secondary Cause. *State address. 85 No. 28 of Births and Deaths Registration (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. 1929. (d) and that the disease had continued Witness my hand this day of 19 Signature Medical Qualification Address (a) Omit "apparently" or stated to be" as the case may be. (b) Omit "awlre, or when hour of death is known from report. (c) State the time. (d) State duration of illness if possible. 4 Note that by "primary cause of death is meant the disease present at the time of death, which initiated the train of events leading thereto, and not a mere secondary, contribu- tory or immediate cause or a terminal condition or mode of death." Passed in the Legislative Council this twenty-eighth day of November, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine'hundred and twenty-nine. J. L. JOHN. Clerk of Legislative Council. 'THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by i to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.P. JI11h29. West African Court of Appeal (Civil Cases) (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. COLONY OF SIERRA LONE. No. 29 of 1929. In His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this seventh day of December, 1929. J. BYRNE, Brigadier-General, Governor. AN ORDINANCE to Amend the West African Court of Appeal (Civil Cases) Ordinance, 1929. BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of the Colony of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:- Short title. 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the West African Court of Appeal (Civil Cases) (Amendment) Ordinance, 1929. Amendment 2. ,Section 2 of the West African Court of Appeal (Civil of see 2 of Cases) Ordinance, 1929 (hereinafter called the Principal No.9 of 1929. Ordinance) is hereby amended by adding thereto the following definitions:- 'Cap. 169." "Circuit Court" means the Court of that name con- stituted by the Protectorate Courts Jurisdiction Ordinance, 1924." Court below means either of the Courts from which an appeal lies direct to the Court of Appeal under this Ordinance ;" No. 29 of West African Court of Appeal (Civil Cases) (Amendment) 1929. Ordinance, 1929. Rules of Court means rules of the Court of Appeal made under the West African Court of Appeal Order in Council, 1928." 3. Section 3 of the Princial Ordinance is hereby amended Amendment by deleting the sentence an appeal shall lie to the Court of of sec. 3 of Appeal" at the commencement thereof, and -substitutingNo9 29 therefore the following sentence :- Subject to the provisions of the next section an appeal shall lie to the Court of Appeal" 4. The following section shall be inserted in the Principal Addition of Ordinance as section 3A :-new section to No. 9 of 1929. 3A. The Court of Appeal shall not entertain any Conditions appeal unless the appellant has fulfilled all the precedent to conditions of appeal imposed by the Court below in appeal. accordance with the Rules of Court." 5. The following section shall be inserted in the Principal Aldition of Ordinance as section 6A : new section to No. 9 of "6A. Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained'1929. Discretion- the Court of Appeal may entertain any appeal from ary power to a Court below on any terms which it thinks fit." entertain any appeal. Passed in the Legislative Council this twenty-eighth day of November. in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THis PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.P. J384/W. Education Ordinance, 1929. COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 30 of 1929. In His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this Nineteenth day of December, 1929. J. BYRNE, Briga(her-General. Governor. AN ORDINANCE to Further Amend and to Consolidate the Law relating to the Promotion and Assistance of Educa- tion in Sierra Leone. Date of com- (1st January, 1930.) mencement. BE IT ENACTED by the Governor ol' thl Colony of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :- Short title, 1. (1) This Ordinance may be cited as the Education Ordin- and applica- ance, 1929, and shall apply to the Colony and the Protectorate. tion. Commence- (2) This Ordinance shall come into force on the date ment. on which it is published in the Gnaztte; provided that sections eleven, thirteen and fourteen shall not come into operation until the first day of January, 1930. Interpreta- 2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires:- tion. "Director" and Deputy Director" mean the Director of Education and the Deputy Director of Education, respectively ; Treasurer means the Colonial Treasurer. No. 30 of Education Ordinance, 1929. 1929. Board in relation to any matter concerning, aris- ing in or affecting the Colony, means the Board of Education appointed under sub-section (1) of section four or the sub-committee appointed for the Colony under sub-section (2) of the said section, and in relation to any matter concerning, arising in or affecting the Protectorate, means the said Board or the sub-committee appointed for the Protectorate under the sub-section last aforesaid. SManagers," in relation to a school, means such person or persons.resident in Sierra Leone who, if not the owners of or having the legal interest in, the school building vested in him or them, are recog- nized by the Director as the representatives of, or as having been appointed by, the person or persons owning the school building or having the legal interest therein vested in him or them; School means a school or institution or department of a school or institution giving regular instruction in primary, secondary, technical, industrial, agricultural or commercial education; "Public Primary School means a school of primary education approved as a public primary school; SPublic Secondary School means a school of secondary education approved as a public secondary school; 'Industrial School means a school approved as such at which either all the pupils, or such number of them as the Director may determine. devote not less than two-thirds of the whole school time to a prescribed or an approved course of training in any manual work, or, in the case of females domestic science; "Agricultural School means a school approved as such at which either all the pupils, or such number of them as the Director may determine, devote not less than two-thirds of the whole school time to a prescribed or approved course of training in agriculture; "Government School means a school established by the Governor and maintained wholly or in part from public funds; 'Assisted School means a public primary, public secondary, or industrial or agricultural school or a school approved by the Governor in Council under section ten which is for the time being in receipt of financial assistance from public funds, or thl salaries 4o. 30 ^ ?* Education Ordinance, 1929. of any of whose staff are paid wholly or in part from such funds, in accordance with rules made under this Ordinance; "Training Institution" means an institution approved as such for the training of teachers; Teacher means a teacher in any school or training institution and includes a person who is desirous of being registered as a teacher under section fourteen or of having his name put on the Provisional List referred to in that section; Approved means approved by the Director Public Funds means public funds of the Colony; Sierra Leone includes the Colony and Pro tectorate; Prescribed means prescribed by rules made under this Ordinance; Ordinance includes any rules made under this Ordinance; Section denotes a section of this Ordinance. Director of 3. (1) There shall be a Director of Education who shall Education be appointed by the Governor and shall hold office during and Educa- otiE pleasure, and shall be charged with the superintendence of Department. matters relating to education in Sierra Leone. (2) The department of the Director established under the Education Ordinance, 1911, shall continue to be styled the Education Department. Boards of 4. (1) There shall be established a Board of Education Education consisting of the Director and twelve or more other members and sub- appointed by the Governor. committees (2) There shall be two sub-committees of the Board, one for the Colony and one for the Protectorate. Each such sub-committee shall consist of the Director and such four or more members of the Board as the Board shall from time to time appoint. The Board may at any time revoke any appointment to a sub-committee. In relation to any matter concerning, arising in or affecting the Colony or Protectorate, the sub-committee for the Colony or PIrotectorate, as the case may be, shall be deemed to have the powers of the Board. The proceedings of each sub-coniuittfe shall be reported to. the Board at its next meeting. (3) In the absence of the Director of Education from any meeting of the Board or a sub-comrittee his place n'ay be taken by the Deputy Director of Education. Eiduiation Ordinance, 1929. 1". (4) The Governor may appoint any person to ue teittporarily a member of the Board during the absence of any member from Sierra Leone. (5) The Governor may appoint for the purposes of aAy particular session or sessions of the Board, any person ilh Sierra Leone as an extraordinary member of the Board fdP such Session or sessions, but such person shall not be entitled to vote. (6) Every member of the Board, other than the Director, shall cease to hold office on the expiration of three years from his appointment, but shall be eligible for re-appointment; provided that the Governor may at any time revoke any appointment made under sub-section (1), (4) or (5) of this section; and provided further that any member appointed as aforesaid may at any time, by a notification in Writing to the Director of Education, resign his sc'at on the Board. 51 (t) The Governor in Council, on the recommendation Power of of the Board, may with respect to the Colony or the Protec Governor in torate make rules for all or any of the following purposes :- Council to make rules. (a) To provide for the conduct of the business of the Board : (b) To prescribe the functions and duties of the Board, of the managers of assisted public primary and secondary schools, and of school committees constituted under section eleven, and other educa- tional authorities appointed under this Ordinance: (c) To prescribe the subjects to be taught in any class of Government school or assisted public primary school or in any training institution and to empower the Director to prescribe courses of instruction in such subjects for different classes and standards in such schools and time-tables for the same: (d) To ensure that the time given to instruction in such schools is adequate and to empower the Director to fix the terms and vacations of such schools: (e) To provide for the inspection, supervision and examination of such schools and training institu- tions: (f) To provide for the medical inspection and physical well being of pupils at such schools: (9) To ensure that the buildings, grounds, and equipment of all schools and training institutions shall be adequate, and that the sane shall be kept clean, in a sanitary condition and in good repair. __ ._ O :of 1929. Education Ordinance, 1929. (h) To ensure the adequate staffing of Government and assisted public primary school. with competent teachers; (i) To secure the proper training of teachers for Government and assisted public primary schools and to prescribe the classes of such teachers' certificates, and the examinations for such certi ficates: (j) To provide for the registration of such teachers and to prescribe the conditions of registration: (k) To prescribe the cases in which such teachers may be removed permanently or temporarily from the Register of Teachers or the Provisional List referred to in section fourteen, the circumstances in which they may be dismissed, or punished by the imposition of a fine not exceeding five pounds, and the authority who may order such removal, dismissal, or impose such a fine, and to provide for the temporary suspension of such teachers pending the investigation of allegations against them : (1) To prescribe the conditions on which such teachers may be employed : (m) To prescribe the authority by whom teachers in Government and assisted public primary schools may be appointed and transferred and by whom their appointments may be terminated, and by whom leave of absence may be granted to such teachers, and to regulate the grant of such leave: (n) To prescribe the manner ih which and the extent to which schools of the kind specified in section ten, training institutions, and missionary and other bodies in respect of educational work in the Colony and Protectorate, as the case may be, may be assisted from public funds, and the conditions (whether relating to such schools or otherwise) of such assistance: (o) To provide for the award from public funds and to prescribe the conditions of tenure of scholarships, bursaries or exhibitions : (p) To prescribe the scale of tuition fees to be paid in respect of pupils in assisted public primary schools; (q) To ensure that children shall not be refused admittance as pupils to assisted schools on inadequate grounds: (r) To regulate corporal punishment in Government and assisted public primary schools: |