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Schedule., part 2, The Protectorate Vagrancy Ordinance (1934)
Status not yet checkedThe Protectorate Vagrancy Ordinance (1934), Sierra Leone
6. (1) If any native is convicted in any Native Court of
any offence which such Court is competent to try, and such
native was not born in the chiefdom in which the Court has
jurisdiction and has not resided there for a continuous period
of two years previous to his being brought before the Court,
then the Court may recommend to the Magistrate of the district
in which the chiefdom is situated that such native shall, in
addition to any punishment, be repatriated to the chiefdom to
which it appears he properly belongs.
(2) Such native shall be sent forthwith to the Magistrate
with as full a record of the proceedings as the circumstances
permit.
7. The Magistrate shall, when a native is brought before him
by virtue of the provisions of section 6, review the proceedings
held in the Native Court and if satisfied that any recommenda-
tion made under the provisions of that section has been properly
made, may, by an order which may be in the form set out in the
Schedule to this Ordinance, direct that such native shall, within
a period to be specified in the order, be repatriated to the
chiefdom named in the order.
8. Any repatriation order made under this Ordinance shall
be carried out by such persons and in such manner as the
Magistrate shall direct, and all persons in any way concerned in
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carrying out any such order shall be held harmless and no action
at law shall be maintainable in respect of any act done in
pursuance of any such order.
Immunity.
9. All expenses incurred in the execution of a repatriation
order made under this Ordinance shall be paid out of general
revenue.
Expenses of
repatriation
to be paid
from general
revenue.
10. If a native who has been repatriated under the provisions
of this Ordinance shall return to the chiefdom from which he
has been repatriated within a period of two years, without the
consent of the Tribal Authority of such chiefdom, he shall be
guilty of an offence and shall on conviction before a Magistrate
be liable to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three
months, with or without hard labour.
Penalty in
case of a
repatriated
native
returning
to the
chiefdom.
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