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The Local Courts (Amendment) Act, 1975

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Amends: Local Courts Act, 1963

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A 29 SIGNED this *11th* day of *August, 1975*. SIAKA STEVENS, *President.* (LS) No. 7 [Coat of arms: UNITY FREEDOM JUSTICE] 1975 Sierra Leone The Local Courts (Amendment) Act, 1975 [Margin: Short title] [*1st May, 1975*] [Margin: Date of commencement.] BE IT ENACTED by the President and Members of Parliament in this present Parliament assembled, as follows:—

Section 1 — Section 34 of the Local Courts Act, 1963, is hereby repealed and replaced by the following new section—

[Margin: Repeal and replacement of Section 34 of Act No. 20 of 1963.] A 30 No. 7 *Local Courts (Amendment)* 1975 [Margin: "Judicial Advisers.] 34. (1) The President may from time to time constitute posts of Judicial Adviser and of Assistant Judicial Adviser as shall seem to him to be necessary. (2) The functions of a Judicial Adviser shall include the advising of the Local Courts in matters of law and organisation, the training of personnel and the exercise of the powers of review prescribed in the following sections and such other functions as may from time to time be conferred upon him by order of the Minister and all or any of the functions of a Judicial Adviser may, subject to his directions, be performed by an Assistant Judicial Adviser.". Passed in Parliament this *22nd* day of *July* in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventy-five. M. MUNU, *Clerk of Parliament.* 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. M. MUNU, *Clerk of Parliament.*

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