TheCriminal Procedure (Amendment) Act, 1981 Shôrt titte.

SiGNED this 10th day of August, 1981. SIAKA STEVENS, President. (LS No. 11 1981 Sierra Leone TheCriminal Procedure (Amendment) Act, 1981 Shôrt titte. [14th June, 1978] Date of Commence BE rr ENKCTED by the President and Members of Parliament in ment. this present Parliament assembled as follows:

This Act shall be deemed to have come into cperation Commenceon the 14th day. of June, 1978. Gnt. No. 11 Criminal Procedurne (Amendment) 1S81 Amendment 2. Section 2 of the Criminal Procedure Act, 1965 is hereby of Section 2,, amended by repealing and replacing the definition of the term oÍ ActNo.32 « Law Officer "by the following new definition of 1965. Law Officer" includes the Attorney-General and Minis ter of Justice, the Solicitor-General, the Director of Public Prosecutions, the First Parliamentary Counsel, the Head of the Civil and Commercial Division, and every State Counsel and Parliamentary Counsel;' Repeal and 3. Subsection 2 of Section 144 of the principal Act is hereby replacement repealed and replaced by the following new subsection :ofS. 144 (2)of Act No. 32of 1965. *(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in Section 143, in any case where a person is charged at any sessions of the High Court with a criminal offence not punishable by death the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, or Director of Public Prosecutions, if he is of the opinion that the general interest of justice would be served thereby, may make an application to the Court for an order, which shall be made as of course, that any such person or persons shall be tried by the Court with the aid of assessors, or by a Judge alone, instead of by a Judge and Jury." Passed in Parliament this 23rd day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nin: hundred and eighty-one. J. W. E. DAVIES, Clerk f Parlianent. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed Parliament and found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill. J. W. E. DAVIES, Clerk f Parliamet. PUNTED BY THE GOvERNMENT PRINTINO DEPARTMENT, S ERRA LsONE GAZETTE No. 45 or 13TH AUouST, 1981.