l. This Act may be cited as the Criminal Procedure Short itle(Amendment) Act, 1964, and shall be deemed to have come into and com-mencement

Assented to in Her Majesty's name this 22nd day of June, 1964. (LS No. 22 uNITY S. A. BENKA-COKER, Acting Governor-General. REEDO USTICE Sierra Leone An Act to Amend the Criminal Procedure Act A 177 Cap. 39. |27th April, 1961.]Date of com BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by andwith the advice and consent of the House of Representatives inthis present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of thesame, as follows :: operation on the 27th day of April, 196l. mencement. l. This Act may be cited as the Criminal Procedure Short itle(Amendment) Act, 1964, and shall be deemed to have come into and com-mencement A178 Insertion of new section 8Ain Cap. 39. No. 22 Replacement of section 118 of Cap. 39.

The Criminal Procedure Act (hereinafter called theprincipal Act) is hcreby amended by the insertion immediately"Offencos by cers abroad and offences after section 8thereof of the following new section-- 8A. (1) Any public officer who commits outsidepublic offi- Sierra Leone, when acting or purporting to act in the course of hiis employment, any act, which committed on aircraft. in Sierra Leone would be an offence shall be guilty of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) cases in Sup Sierra Leone. an offence of the same nature. and subject to the same punishment, as if the act had been commited in M.P. OPM. 4 if (2) Any person who commits on an aircraft operated by or on behalf of a company registered in Sierra Leone, any act which, if committed in Sierta Leone would be an offence shall be guilty of an offence of the same nature, and subject to the same punishment, as if the act had been committed in Sierra Leone. (3) Any person may be proceeded against, tried and punished for an offence under this section in any part of Sierra Leone in which he is apprehended or i in custody as if the offence had been committed in that part of Sierra Leone; and the offence shall, for all purpOses incidental to or consequential on the trial or punishment thereof, be deemed to have been committed in that part of Sierra Leone."

The principal Act is hereby amended by the repeal andrenlacement of section 118 thereof by the following new section Criminal 118. (1) Criminal cases in the Supreme Court shal reme Court be tried upon an information signed by a law officer, to be tried and every such information shall be valid for all the on informa- purposes of this Act. tion. year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixty-four. (2) For the purposes of this section the expres sion "law officer " shall mean the Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General, the First Parliamentary Counse. the Principal Crown Counsel, Senior Crown Counsel. Senior Parliamentary Counsel. Crown Counsel and Parliamentary Counsel." Passed in the House of Representatives this 7th day of May, in the S. V. WRIGHT, be a true and correctly printed copy of the sajd Bill. Clerk of the House of Representatives. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the House of Representatives and found by me to S. V. WRIGHT, Clerk of the House of Representatives.