Part 7, The State Proceedings Act, 2000

(2) Civil proceedings against the Government shall be instituted against the Attorney-General as defendant. (3) No proceedings instituted in accordance with this Act by or against the Attorney-General or any other officer shall abate or be otherwise affected by any change in the person holding the office. [Margin: Interpleader.] 14. The Government may institute or be made a party to interpleader proceedings in the same manner in which a private person may institute such proceedings or be made a party thereto and the rules of court relating to interpleader proceedings shall, subject to this Act, apply. [Margin: Service of documents.] 15. All documents required to be served on the Government for the purposes of or in connection with any civil proceedings by or against the Government shall be served on the Attorney-General at the Law Officers' Department or on a representative of the Attorney-General in any part of Sierra Leone or on any officer specified under any other law. No. 14 State Proceedings Act 2000 9 16. In any case in which civil proceedings against Government triable in the High Court are instituted in a district registry, the Government may enter an appearance in the district registry or in the central office of the High Court in Freetown, and if an appearance is entered at the central office all steps in relation to the proceedings up to trial shall be taken as though the proceedings had been instituted at the central office. [Margin: Venue and related matter.] 17. (1) If in a case in which proceedings are instituted by or against the Government in a Magistrates' Court an application in that behalf is made by the Government to the High Court, and there is produced to the court a certificate of the Attorney-General to the effect that the proceedings may involve an important question of law, or may be decisive in other cases arising out of the same matter, or are for other reasons more fit to be tried in the High Court, the proceedings shall be removed into the High Court. [Margin: Removal and transfer of proceedings.]