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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.


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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.


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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.


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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


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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.


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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.


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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








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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








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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.


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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









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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
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(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
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(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.









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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
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(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
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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
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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
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(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
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(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
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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
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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
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(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.









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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
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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."









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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
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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."









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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.
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(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 ;"








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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 ;
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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
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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
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(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
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(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: