The Summary Conviction Offences (Amendment) Act, 1983 [Margin: Short title.]

9 SIGNED this 18th day of November, 1983. SIAKA STEVENS, President. (LS) No. 10 1983 Sierra Leone The Summary Conviction Offences (Amendment) Act, 1983 [Margin: Short title.] Being an Act to amend the Summary Conviction Offences Act (Cap. 37) [24th November, 1983] [Margin: Date of commencement.] BE IT ENACTED by the President and Members of Parliament in this present Parliament assembled, as follows:—

10 No. 10 Summary Conviction Offences (Amendment) 1983 (a) in subsection (1) thereof, by the substitution for the words "within fifty yards of any aircraft or ship" of the words "within two hundred yards of any aircraft or ship"; and (b) by the substitution for subsection (3) thereof of the following new subsection— "(3) Any person who acts contrary to the provisions of this section may be arrested without warrant by any member of the Police Force and shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding two thousand leones or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding two years or to both; and the court which convicted him shall order the forfeiture to the State of the boat." Passed in Parliament this 27th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighty-three J. W. E. DAVIES, 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. J. W. E. DAVIES, Clerk of Parliament. PRINTED BY THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING DEPARTMENT, SIERRA LEONE GAZETTE No. 71 OF 24TH NOVEMBER, 1983.