Magistrates' Court Ordinance

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3. Establishment of the Senior Magistrate's Court and magistrates' courts
4. Territorial limits of jurisdiction of the courts
5. Seals
6. Contempt of court

7. Appointment of Senior Magistrate and magistrates
8. Territorial jurisdiction
9. Special appointments
10. Procedure where magistrate is unable to adjudicate on any cause or matter by reason of personal interest, etc.
11. Records and returns
12. Appointment and removal of justices of the peace
13. Powers and functions of justices of the peace
14. Clerks of court
15. Duties of clerks of court
16. Sheriff
17. Bailiffs
18. Other officers
19. Transfer of officers

20. Powers of magistrates' courts
21. Repealed by 8 of 1987
22. Civil jurisdiction
23. Law and equity
24. Extension of civil jurisdiction
25. Criminal jurisdiction
26. Special jurisdiction in certain cases
27. General powers of magistrates
28. Acts of magistrates not to be affected by error as to venue
29. Proceedings by or against an officer of a magistrate's court
30. Administration of oaths
31. Jurisdiction of judges of High Court concurrent with that of magistrates
32. Reconciliation
33. Transfer between magistrates in the same district
34. A cause may be reported for transfer
35. Transfer of cases by the Senior Magistrate
36. Effect of an order of transfer
37. Judgment may be entered in High Court on a judgment of a magistrate's court

38. Powers of judge in relation to Senior Magistrate's Court
39. Civil appeals
40. Conditions precedent to appeal
41. Power to reserve question of law for the opinion of the High Court
42. Discretionary power of High Court to entertain appeals
43. Criminal appeals

45. Monthly lists of criminal cases
46. Power to revise decisions of magistrates and Senior Magistrate
47. Reports by magistrates

48. Place for sittings of magistrates' courts
49. Time for sittings
50. Nature of business at any sitting
51. Adjournments
52. Adjournment over Sunday or public holiday

53. Practice and procedure
54. Completion by magistrate of process begun by his predecessor
55. Process of magistrate valid throughout Tuvalu
56. Issue of process
57. Duty of Police Force to obey magistrates
58. Language of the magistrates' courts and interpretation

59. Summoning witnesses
60. Penalty for non-attendance of persons summoned
61. Refusal to be sworn or to give evidence
62. Bystander may be required to give evidence
63. Prisoners may be brought up in order to give evidence
64. Allowances to witnesses
65. How allowances defrayed
66. Inspection
67. No person entitled to inspection of the record of evidence
68. Recording evidence before a magistrate's court

PROTECTION OF MAGISTRATES, JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND OFFICERS OF THE MAGISTRATE'S COURT

70. Representation of Crown, public officers in their official capacity and departments of the Government

73. By whom fees and costs payable
74. All fees and moneys received in magistrates' courts to be subject to aforegoing provisions
75. Rules of court
76. Saving

An Ordinance to provide for the constitution of a Senior Magistrate's Court and magistrates' courts, for the appointment of magistrates and other officers of such courts and of justices of the peace, and for the regulation of their duties and jurisdiction, and for appeals from such courts and for certain appellate jurisdiction and revisional powers of such courts, and for matters connected therewith

5 of 1963
7 of 1965
10 of 1965
10 of 1967
8 of 1968
3 of 1969
L.N. 16/72
3 of 1972
13 of 1972
(Cap. 2 of 1973)
7 of 1974
5 of 1975 (T)
L.N. 29/63
1 of 1982
8 of 1987
9 of 1987
4 of 1989

"bailiff" means a person appointed to be a bailiff pursuant to section 17 and includes any assistant bailiff or any other person assisting a bailiff in the performance of his duties;

"Cause" shall include any action, suit, or other original proceeding between a plaintiff and a defendant and any criminal proceeding;

"cause of action" in suits founded on contract shall not necessarily mean the whole cause of action; but a cause of action shall be deemed to have arisen within the jurisdiction if the contract was made therein, though the breach may have occurred elsewhere, and also if the breach occurred within the jurisdiction, though the contract may have been made elsewhere;

"clerk of court" and "clerk" means any person appointed to be a clerk of court pursuant to section 14 and includes any assistant clerk and any other person assisting a clerk in the performance of his duties;

"criminal" includes quasi-criminal, and with reference to matters of jurisdiction, comprehends all such matters not falling within the term "civil";

"legal practitioner" means any person entitled to practise in the High Court in accordance with section 80 of the Constitution;

"magistrate" means any person appointed to hold a magistrate's court under section 7 or under section 9;

"Senior Magistrate" means the Senior Magistrate for the time being appointed under section 7(1);

"Sheriff" means any person for the time being acting as Sheriff of the High Court and includes any deputy sheriff or under sheriff and any person lawfully authorised to execute the process of the High Court or any magistrates' court;

"suit" includes action, and means a civil proceeding commenced by writ of summons or in such other manner as may be prescribed by rules of court, and does not include a criminal proceeding.

(2) References to "magistrate" or to "magistrates' courts" or to "magistrate's court" shall in this and any other Ordinance, unless otherwise specified or the context necessarily otherwise requires, include reference to the Senior Magistrate's Court or to the Senior Magistrate, as the case may be.

3. (1) There shall be and there are hereby established in Tuvalu courts having summary jurisdiction, and such appellate jurisdiction as may be conferred by this or any other Ordinance, and such courts shall be known respectively as the Senior Magistrate's Court and magistrates' courts and shall be subordinate to the High Court and shall be presided over as respects the Senior Magistrate's Court by a Senior Magistrate and as respects magistrates' courts by magistrates appointed under this Ordinance and such courts, subject to the provisions of any other Ordinance, shall exercise jurisdiction as is by this Ordinance prescribed.

(2) A magistrate's court shall be deemed to be constituted whenever a magistrate exercises any jurisdiction, power, authority, function or discretion vested in a magistrate by any law and the Senior Magistrate's Court shall be deemed to be constituted whenever the Senior Magistrate exercises any jurisdiction, power, authority, function or discretion vested in the Senior Magistrate's Court or conferred on the Senior Magistrate by any law.

(3) Any power, authority, function or discretion vested in a magistrate's court by this or any other Ordinance or law shall be possessed and may be exercised by a magistrate having adequate jurisdiction.

4. Subject to any express provisions of this or any other Ordinance every magistrate's court shall exercise jurisdiction throughout Tuvalu:

Provided that the Senior Magistrate may direct the distribution of business between such courts.

5. Magistrates' courts shall use seals of such nature and pattern as the Governor-General shall approve.

6. The Senior Magistrate's Court shall have the same powers as the High Court to deal with contempt of its authority and such power shall extend to upholding the authority of magistrates' courts.

7. (1) Subject to subsection (4), the Governor-General may, by warrant under his hand, appoint any fit and proper person to be a Senior Magistrate to hold the Senior Magistrate's Court and to exercise all of the jurisdiction of the Senior Magistrate's Court and every such person when so appointed shall have and exercise all the powers and jurisdiction conferred upon a Senior Magistrate and the Senior Magistrate's Court by this or any other Ordinance.

(2) Subject to subsection (4), the Governor-General may, by warrant under his hand, appoint any fit and proper person to be a magistrate to hold a magistrate's court and to exercise all of the jurisdiction of a magistrate's court and every such person when so appointed shall have and exercise all the powers and jurisdiction conferred upon magistrates and magistrates' courts by this or any other Ordinance:

Provided that the Governor-General may, by the terms of any such warrant of appointment, restrict the powers to be exercised by any person thereby appointed in manner and extent, and thereupon such person shall have and exercise the powers and jurisdiction conferred by this Ordinance only to the extent authorised by such appointment.

(3) Subject to subsection (4), the Governor-General may, by writing under his hand, cancel or suspend any warrant of appointment given in pursuance of subsection (2), or may extend or remove either wholly or in part any restriction of the powers to be exercised, contained in such warrant.

(4) The Governor-General shall exercise his powers under this section in accordance with the advice of the Public Service Commission and subject to the approval, either general or specific, the Chief Justice or a person authorised by him for the purpose.

8. (1) Subject to the terms of his warrant, every magistrate may exercise jurisdiction throughout Tuvalu but may be assigned by the Senior Magistrate to any particular place or places and transferred from one place to another.

(2) Notwithstanding any such assignment a magistrate so assigned may, without special notification or appointment to that effect, exercise jurisdiction in any other place or places.

9. (1) Subject to subsection (3), the Governor-General, in case of illness, absence, or incapacity of any magistrate, or for any other good and sufficient reason may, by writing under his hand, appoint any other fit and proper person to hold a magistrate's courts.

(2) Every appointment under the preceding subsection shall specify the powers to be exercised thereunder, and shall define the area in which such powers are to be exercised, and shall continue in force until revoked by the Governor-General or by expiration of any time prescribed in any such appointment for its determination.

(3) The powers of the Governor-General under this section shall be exercised in accordance with the advice of the Public Service Commission and subject to the approval, either general or specific, of the Chief Justice or a person authorised by him for the purpose.

Procedure where magistrate is unable to adjudicate on any cause or matter by reason of personal interest, etc.

10. Where a magistrate is a party to any cause or matter, or is unable, from personal interest or any other sufficient reason, to adjudicate on any cause or matter, the Senior Magistrate shall direct some other magistrate to act instead of such aforesaid magistrate for the hearing and determination of such particular cause or matter, or shall direct that such cause or matter shall be heard and determined in a magistrate's court in any other place.

11. Every magistrate's court shall keep such written records and furnish such returns as may be required by this Ordinance or as the Senior Magistrate may from time to time direct.

12. (1) The Governor-General may appoint any person to be a justice of the peace in and for Tuvalu or in and for such part of Tuvalu as the Governor-General may specify, and the Governor-General may remove any person so appointed from the office of justice of the peace.

(2) The Chief Justice and every magistrate shall be ex officio a justice of the peace for Tuvalu.

13. Subject to the provisions of this and of any other Ordinance, every justice of the peace shall, subject to any exceptions which may be contained in his appointment, within the area in and for which he holds such office, have-

(a) all the powers, rights and duties of a magistrate under this or any other Ordinance to-

(i) issue summonses and warrants for the purpose of compelling the attendance of any accused persons or witnesses before a court;

(b) such other powers and rights and shall perform such duties of magistrates as may be conferred or imposed upon him by rules of court made under this or any other Ordinance not involving the trial of causes or, in criminal cases, the holding of preliminary investigations.

14. (1) The shall be a clerk of court attached to each magistrate's court who shall be appointed by the Senior Magistrate and shall, subject to the general supervision and control of the Senior Magistrate, be under the immediate direction and control of the magistrate for the time being exercising the jurisdiction of the magistrate's court to which he is attached:

Provided that in the event of the absence or incapacity of a clerk of court the magistrate may appoint any person temporarily to perform the duties of clerk of court or may himself perform any such duties.

(2) The Registrar for the time being of the High Court shall ex officio be the Clerk of the Senior Magistrate's Court.

(a) to attend at such sittings of the magistrate's court as the magistrate exercising its jurisdiction may direct;

(b) to fill up or cause to be filled up all summonses, warrants, orders, convictions, recognizances, writs of execution, and other documents and to submit the same for the signature of such magistrate;

(c) to issue civil processes in accordance with the rules of court for the time being in force;

(d) to make or cause to be made copies of proceedings when required to do so by such magistrate, and to record the judgment, convictions and orders of the magistrate's court;

(e) to receive or cause to be received all fees, fines and penalties, and all other moneys paid or deposited in respect of proceedings in the magistrate's court, and to keep or cause to be kept accounts of the same; and

(f) to perform or cause to be performed such other duties as may be assigned to him by such magistrate.

16. (1) The Sheriff shall be charged with the execution of all orders and processes of the magistrate's court and for this purpose shall have the same powers, authority and immunities as may be conferred upon him by the law for the time being in respect of the orders and processes of the High Court.

(2) Every duty of the Sheriff in execution of any process of the court may be performed by such police officers, or other persons, as may be authorised by the Sheriff; and any police officer, or other person who is in possession of any such process shall be deemed to be duly so authorised, and shall for all purposes of such execution, and connected therewith, be an officer of the court.

(3) The Sheriff shall not be liable to be sued for any act or omission of any police officer, or other person, in the execution of any process which shall have been done or may have occurred, either through disobedience or neglect of the orders or instructions given by the Sheriff, or in the absence of any order or instructions given by the Sheriff.

17. The bailiffs shall be appointed by the Sheriff, with the approval of the magistrate exercising the jurisdiction of the magistrate's court to which they are to be attached, and may themselves or by their assistants serve and execute any process issued out of the magistrate's court; and when so directed by such magistrate they shall attend such court and obey all the directions of the magistrate for preserving order and decorum therein.

18. The Senior Magistrate may from time to time appoint such other officers as may be necessary for the efficient exercise of jurisdiction by magistrate's courts and may attach such officers to any magistrate exercising judicial functions in a court under the provisions of this Ordinance.

19. The Senior Magistrate may transfer any officer attached to any magistrate's court from time to time to any other magistrate's court, either for temporary or permanent duty.

20. Subject to any other provision of this Ordinance and to the provisions of any other law for the time being in force in Tuvalu, every magistrate's court shall have and exercise jurisdiction in civil and criminal matters as in this Ordinance provided.

22. (1) The jurisdiction of a magistrate's court in civil causes and matters shall be limited as provided by this section and by any other law for the time being in force.

(2) No magistrate's court shall have jurisdiction in any civil cause or matter in respect of which original jurisdiction to hear and determine the same is conferred on a lands court by the Native Lands Ordinance.

(3) The Governor-General in consultation with the Chief Justice may by order limit the civil jurisdiction of magistrates' courts in such manner as he may think fit and such an order may make different provision for the Senior Magistrate's Court from that made for other magistrates' courts.

(4) Subject to any law for the time being in force if in any suit or civil cause or matter before a magistrate's court the title to any land is disputed or the question of the ownership thereof arises the court shall-

(a) where original jurisdiction to hear and determine such dispute or question is conferred by law upon any lands court, transfer the dispute or question to that lands court for adjudication or determination and until such adjudication or determination (and if any appeal lies therefrom the effluxion of the time within which such appeal may be lodged and, if any such appeal is lodged, its final determination) adjourn the suit, civil cause or matter wherein such dispute or question arose; or

(b) where original jurisdiction to hear and determine such dispute or question is not conferred by law on any lands court, if all the parties interested therein consent, adjudicate thereon or, if they do not so consent, apply to the High Court to transfer such suit, cause or matter to itself.

(2) In exercise of any jurisdiction vested in him by this Ordinance, any magistrate shall have power to grant and shall grant, either absolutely or on such reasonable terms and conditions as shall seem just, all such remedies or relief whatsoever, interlocutory or final, as any of the parties thereto may appear to be entitled to in respect of any and every legal or equitable claim or defence properly brought forward by them respectively or which shall appear in such cause or matter; so that, as far as possible, all matters in controversy between the said parties respectively may be completely and finally determined and all multiplicity of legal proceedings concerning any of such matters avoided.

24. The Chief Justice may, by order under his hand and the seal of the High Court, authorise an increased jurisdiction in civil causes and matters to be exercised by the magistrate named in any such order, within the district prescribed in the order and to the extent specified in the order. Such an order may at any time be revoked by the Chief Justice by an instrument under his hand and the seal of the High Court.

25. (1) Subject to the provisions of any other law for the time being in force, the Senior Magistrate's Court shall have jurisdiction to try summarily any criminal offence-

(a) for which the maximum punishment prescribed by law for such offence does not exceed-

(b) in respect of which jurisdiction is by any law expressly conferred upon the Senior Magistrate's Court or it is expressly provided that such offence may be tried summarily:

Provided that the maximum punishment which the Senior Magistrate's Court may impose shall not exceed-

(2) Subject to the provisions of any other law for the time being in force, a magistrate's court shall have jurisdiction to try summarily any criminal offence -

(a) for which the maximum punishment prescribed by law for such offence does not exceed-

(b) in respect of which jurisdiction is by any law expressly conferred upon a magistrate's court or it is expressly provided that such offence may be tried summarily.

(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding subsections, the Senior Magistrate, by order under his hand, may invest a magistrate's court, and the Chief Justice, by order under his hand and the seal of the High Court, may invest the Senior Magistrate's Court and any magistrate's court with jurisdiction to try summarily any offence which would otherwise be beyond its jurisdiction.

(4) In the case of consecutive sentences imposed by a magistrate's court in respect of 2 or more distinct offences arising out of the same facts it shall not be necessary for such magistrate's court to send the offender for trial before the High Court by reason only that the aggregate punishment for the several offences in respect of which such sentences are imposed is in excess of the punishment which it is competent to impose on conviction for a single offence:

Provided that the aggregate punishment imposed in the form of consecutive sentences shall not exceed twice the amount of the punishment which such magistrate's court is competent to impose in respect of 1 offence in the exercise of its ordinary jurisdiction.

26. Where an offence over which a magistrate's court has jurisdiction is committed or any cause or matter arises in any vessel, such offence may be prosecuted or such cause or matter heard and determined either by the magistrate's court exercising jurisdiction over the place where such vessel is at the time when such offence is committed or such cause or matter arises, or by the magistrate's court exercising jurisdiction over any place where such vessel calls after such commission or arising.

27. Every magistrate shall have power to issue writs of summons for the commencement of actions in a magistrate's court, to administer oaths and take solemn affirmations and declarations, to require production of books and documents and to make such decrees and orders and issue such process and exercise such judicial and administrative powers in relation to the administration of justice as shall from time to time be prescribed by this or any other Ordinance, or by rules of court, or subject thereto by any special order of the Chief Justice.

28. (1) Subject to the provisions of any other Ordinance, no act done within Tuvalu by or under the authority of any magistrate shall be void or impeachable by reason only that such act was done, or that any act, offence or matter in respect of or in relation to which such act was done, occurred or was situated beyond the area of the jurisdiction of the magistrate's court exercised by him.

(2) If the defendant in any civil cause or matter, before, but not after, the time when he is required to state his answer in such cause or matter, specially alleges that any of the grounds referred to in the preceding subsection exist, which, but for the provisions of that subsection, would be of force, the court shall consider the same, and if there is prima facie proof thereof such court shall report such cause or matter to the Senior Magistrate who shall make an order directing where the cause or matter shall be heard and determined, and such order shall not be subject to appeal.

29. Subject to the proceedings of section 10, any civil proceedings by or against any magistrate or other officer of a magistrate's court for any offence or matter cognisable by a magistrate's court may be brought in a magistrate's court in any other district.

30. (1) Every magistrate and every justice of the peace is hereby authorised to administer all oaths which may require to be taken before him in exercise of the jurisdiction and powers conferred upon him by this or any other Ordinance.

(2) Any such oath may also be administered by any clerk of court or other officer of the magistrate's court under the direction and in the presence of a magistrate.

(3) Every magistrate shall be a commissioner for oaths and shall have and may exercise the powers by law conferred thereon.

31. No jurisdiction conferred upon any magistrate shall in any way restrict or affect the jurisdiction of the judges of the High Court, but such judges shall have in all causes and matters, civil and criminal, an original jurisdiction concurrent with the jurisdiction of the several magistrates.

32. (1) In criminal cases a magistrate's court may promote reconciliation and encourage and facilitate the settlement in an amicable way of proceedings for common assault, or for any offence of a personal or private nature not amounting to felony and not aggravated in degree, on terms of payment of compensation or other terms approved by such court, and may thereupon order the proceedings to be stayed or terminated.

(2) In civil causes a magistrate's court and the officers thereof shall, as far as there is proper opportunity, promote reconciliation among persons subject to its jurisdiction and encourage and facilitate settlement in an amicable way and without recourse to litigation of matters in difference between them.

(3) Where a civil suit or proceedings is pending a magistrate's court and the officers thereof may promote reconciliation among the parties thereto and encourage and facilitate the amicable settlement thereof.

33. Where the Senior Magistrate assigns 2 or more magistrates to any area, any such magistrate within such area may, at any stage of the proceedings before final judgment, transfer, within the limits of such area, any cause or matter before him to any other such magistrate and such cause or matter shall be commenced de novo, inquired into, tried and disposed of by any magistrate of competent jurisdiction to whom it has been transferred as if it had been instituted before him:

Provided that no cause or matter which has been specifically transferred by the High Court for inquiry or trial by a particular magistrate shall again be transferred without leave of the Senior Magistrate.

34. (1) A magistrate's court may, of its own motion or on the application of any person concerned, report to the Senior Magistrate the pendency of any cause or matter which in the opinion of the magistrate exercising jurisdiction in such magistrate's court ought to be transferred from it to any other magistrate's court or to the Senior Magistrate's Court; and the Senior Magistrate shall by order direct in what mode and where the cause or matter shall be heard and determined.

(2) Subsection (1) shall apply to the Senior Magistrate's Court as if reference to a magistrate's court were a reference to the Senior Magistrate's Court and reference to the Senior Magistrate's Court were a reference to the High Court.

35. (1) The Senior Magistrate's Court may at any time and at any stage thereof before judgment transfer any civil cause or matter before a magistrate's court to any other magistrate's court or to the Senior Magistrate's Court, and such cause may be transferred either entirely or in respect of any part thereof or procedure required to be taken therein.

(2) The power of transfer shall be exercised by means of an order under the hand of the Senior Magistrate, and may apply either to any particular cause or causes, matter or matters in dependence either entirely or in respect of any part thereof or procedure required to be taken therein, or generally to all such causes and matters as may be described in such order, and in the latter case may extend to future causes or matters as well as to such as may at the time of making such order be in dependence.

(3) The Senior Magistrate's Court may at all times cancel, alter, add to or amend any order under the preceding subsection.

(4) The Senior Magistrate's Court may, if it appear expedient, in the first instance cause the contents of any such order to be telegraphed, and any such telegram shall, until receipt of the said order have the same validity and effect as if it were the said order.

36. (1) Every order of transfer shall operate as a stay of proceedings in the magistrate's court to which it may be addressed in any cause or matter to which the order extends or is applicable, and the process and proceedings in every such cause or matter, and an attested copy of all entries in the books of such court relative thereto, shall be transmitted to the court to which the same shall be transferred and thenceforth all proceedings in the cause or matter shall be taken in such court as if the cause or matter had been commenced therein.

(2) An order given under section 34 or section 35 shall not be subject to appeal.

37. (1) A judge, if satisfied that a person, whether resident in Tuvalu or not, against whom judgment for an amount exceeding $40 has been obtained (whether by way of claim or counterclaim or costs or otherwise) in a magistrate's court, has no goods or chattels within Tuvalu which can be seized conveniently to satisfy the judgment, may, if he thinks fit, and upon such terms as to costs as he may direct, by order under his hand and the seal of the High Court, remove the judgment into the High Court.

(2) Upon the removal of a judgment into the High Court in pursuance of this section no further proceedings shall be had or taken thereon in the magistrate's court and the judgment shall be entered in the High Court for the amount due and payable under the judgment of the magistrate's court together with the costs as aforesaid, and a judgment so entered shall have the same force and effect and the same proceedings may be had thereon as if it were a judgment originally obtained in the High Court.

(3) This section applies to orders obtained in a magistrate's court as it applies to judgments therein obtained.

38. For the purposes of this Part, in relation to the Senior Magistrate's Court, a judge shall have and may exercise all of the powers of the Senior Magistrate as though the Senior Magistrate's Court were a magistrate's court and the judge were the Senior Magistrate.

39. (1) Subject to the provisions of this or any other Ordinance, an appeal shall lie to the Senior Magistrate's Court-

(a) from all final judgments and decisions of any magistrate's court in any suit or matter before it; and

(b) from all interlocutory orders and decisions of any magistrate's court made in the course of any suit or matter before it:

Provided that where the magistrate's court in question is the Senior Magistrate's Court, the appeal shall lie to the High Court.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding subsection, no appeal shall lie, except by special leave of the magistrate's court or of the Senior Magistrate's Court or of the High Court, as the case may be, from any order or decision made by consent, ex parte or as to costs only.

40. Subject to section 42, neither the Senior Magistrate's Court nor the High Court shall entertain any appeal arising from any suit or matter unless the appellant has fulfilled all the conditions of appeal imposed by the magistrate's court or by the Senior Magistrate's Court or the High Court, as the case may be, or as prescribed by rules of court.

41. In addition to, and without prejudice to, the right of appeal conferred by this Ordinance, a magistrate may reserve for the consideration of the Senior Magistrate and the Senior Magistrate for the consideration of the High Court on a case to be stated by him any question of law which may arise on the trial of any suit or matter, and may give any judgment or decision subject to the opinion of the Senior Magistrate or of the High Court, as the case may be, and the Senior Magistrate or the High Court shall have power to determine, with or without hearing argument, every such question.

42. Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained the Senior Magistrate's Court and the High Court may entertain any appeal on any terms which it may think fit.

43. (1) Where by any other law, appeals in criminal causes lie to the High Court from any magistrate's court, such appeals shall lie to the Senior Magistrate's Court, except where such appeals are from the Senior Magistrate's Court, in which case they shall lie to the High Court.

(2) In respect of every appeal in a criminal cause to the Senior Magistrate's Court from a magistrate's court the provisions of sections 281, 282, 283 and 284 of the Criminal Procedure Code shall apply as if every reference therein to the High Court were a reference to the Senior Magistrate's Court.

44. (1) A magistrate's court shall have power to review any judgment, sentence or order of any island court within the limits of the district within which such magistrate's court is situated and shall have the jurisdiction to hear and determine appeals from any judgment, sentence or order (including any question of law reserved for its consideration by way of case stated) of any such court and may for those purposes exercise such powers and authority as may be conferred upon it by or under any law for the time being in force; and, subject to the provisions of any such law, for all the purposes of and incidental to any such review or the hearing and determination of any such appeal, a magistrate's court shall have all the powers, authority and jurisdiction vested in the island court which dealt with or determined the case under review or from which such appeal is brought.

(2) If any person considers himself aggrieved by the decision of any magistrate's court either in exercise of its power of review or upon any appeal, such person may appeal to the Senior Magistrate's Court and the Senior Magistrate's Court shall have like power, authority and jurisdiction as had the magistrate's court from which the appeal is brought.

45. At the end of every month, every magistrate shall send to the Senior Magistrate, either generally or in respect of any particular district, in such form as the Senior Magistrate may from time to time direct, a complete list of all criminal cases decided by or brought before such magistrate during that month, setting out the names, sex, and age of each defendant, the offence with which he was charged, such defendant's plea thereto and, if convicted, the date of the conviction and the sentence or order in full; and in the case of criminal cases decided by or brought before the Senior Magistrate, the Senior Magistrate shall in like manner send such list to the Chief Justice.

46. (1) Upon receipt of the list referred to in the preceding section the Senior Magistrate receiving the same may, if he thinks fit, call for a copy of the record of any of the cases included therein and, either without seeing such record or after seeing such record, as he may determine, and either without hearing argument or after hearing argument, as he may determine, may-

(a) subject to any enactment fixing a minimum penalty, reduce or alter the nature of but not increase a sentence; or

(b) subject to any enactment requiring a particular order to be made, set aside an order or modify an order in such form as he thinks fit; or

(c) set aside the conviction, in which case the person convicted if under detention shall be forthwith set at liberty, or in the case of a fine such fine, if already paid, shall be refunded to the person fined, or if security has been required and given, he shall be freed from such security; or

(d) set aside the conviction and convict the accused person on the evidence of any offence of which he has not been specifically acquitted and of which he might have been convicted and sentence him accordingly; or

(e) set aside the conviction and substitute a special finding to the effect that the person convicted was guilty of the act or omission charged, but was insane so as not to be responsible for his action at the time when he did the act or made the omission, and order such person to be kept in custody as a criminal lunatic in such place and manner as the Senior Magistrate may direct, and such special finding shall be forthwith reported for the order of the Governor-General who may order the person convicted to be confined in a mental health wing, prison or other suitable place of safe custody; or

(f) set aside the conviction and order a new trial or a preliminary enquiry before the magistrate who made the conviction in question or before any other magistrate; or

(g) order further evidence to be taken either generally or on some particular point by the magistrate who passed the sentence or by any other magistrate, and order in the meantime any person who shall have been convicted and imprisoned to be liberated on bail or on his own recognizance; and

(h) make such other order as justice may require and give all necessary and consequential directions:

Provided always that when a person convicted shall have appealed against such conviction or any sentence imposed in respect thereof, or shall have applied for a case to be stated by the magistrate under the provisions in that behalf contained in any other Ordinance for the time being in force relating to criminal procedure or in any rules of court made under the provisions of section 78 of the Constitution, the Senior Magistrate shall not exercise the powers conferred by this section.

(2) When action upon the list as prescribed in subsection (1) is complete or if the Senior Magistrate shall decide to take no such action, the Senior Magistrate shall direct that the list be filed; but such direction shall not have the effect of preventing him or his successor from subsequently taking any action prescribed in that subsection if he shall think fit:

Provided that 6 months after the last day of the month to which such list relates the Senior Magistrate shall become functus officio in respect of all cases upon the list in respect of which he shall not up till then have taken any action.

(3) Proceedings under this section may be taken by the Senior Magistrate of his own motion or on the petition of any person interested praying for the exercise of the revisional powers of the Senior Magistrate and such powers may be exercised notwithstanding that the relevant monthly list shall not have been transmitted to or received by the Senior Magistrate.

(4) Nothing in this section contained shall be deemed to authorise the conversion of a finding of acquittal into one of conviction.

(5) This section shall apply to criminal cases decided by or brought before the Senior Magistrate and to a list of such cases as if references therein to the Senior Magistrate were references to the Chief Justice.

47. The Senior Magistrate and any judge may, whenever he shall so think fit to do, require any magistrate to render to him, in such form as he may direct, a report of any case civil or criminal which may be brought before him and such report shall be rendered accordingly.

48. Magistrates' courts shall ordinarily be held at such places as the Senior Magistrate may direct, but should necessity arise they may also be held at any other places within the limits of their jurisdiction, and in the absence of any such directions magistrates' courts shall continue to be held at such places as existing courts of like character have been held.

49. Subject to the directions, if any, of the Senior Magistrate, each magistrate's court shall be held at such time as the magistrate exercising the jurisdiction of such court shall deem most expedient for the despatch of the business thereof.

50. At any sitting of any magistrate's court both civil and criminal causes and matters may be heard, determined, and dealt with, or either one or the other.

51. (1) Any magistrate exercising the jurisdiction of a magistrate's court may adjourn such court from day to day or to any convenient day.

(2) If a magistrate is not present at the time and place appointed for any sitting of a magistrate's court, any other officer of such court or other person authorised in that behalf by the magistrate, may, by public notice, written or oral, adjourn the sitting until such time and to such place as may have been communicated to him by the magistrate, and, in the absence of any such communication, to such time and place as may be convenient; and all persons bound to be present at the sitting so adjourned shall be equally bound to be present at the time and place appointed by such notice.

52. When any day appointed for the sitting or any adjourned sitting of a magistrate's court falls on a Sunday or a public holiday, the sitting shall not take place on such day, and the magistrate shall in such case, if practicable, attend and transact the business appointed to be heard at such sitting as aforesaid on the day (not being a Sunday or public holiday) next after the day appointed for such sitting.

53. Subject to the provisions of any other law for the time being in force, the jurisdiction vested in magistrates' courts shall be exercised (so far as regards practice and procedure) in the manner provided by this Ordinance or by any other Ordinance for the time being in force relating to criminal or civil procedure, or by rules of court, and in default thereof, in substantial conformity with the law and practice for the time being observed in England in county courts and courts of summary jurisdiction.

54. Where a magistrate has issued any summons or warrant or otherwise taken or commenced any proceeding or matter, whether civil or criminal, under any authority howsoever conferred, and subsequently ceases to act as such magistrate, it shall be lawful for the person in whose hands such summons or warrant may be to execute or serve the same in the same manner as if the magistrate who issued the summons or warrant had not ceased to act as such magistrate and any successor of such magistrate, or any person acting for such magistrate, may hear, determine, execute, enforce, and carry to completion any proceeding or matter so commenced as aforesaid save that, except where otherwise provided by any other Ordinance for the time being in force relating to criminal or civil procedure, such magistrate shall commence the trial of any such cause or matter ab initio.

55. Subject to the provisions of any other Ordinance for the time being in force relating to criminal or civil procedure, all summonses, warrants, orders, judgments, writs of execution, or other process or proceedings, whether civil or criminal, issued or taken by or by the authority of any magistrate respecting any cause or matter within his jurisdiction shall have force and effect, and may be served or executed anywhere within Tuvalu by the sheriff, bailiff or the member of the Police Force to whom the same are directed or by any other member of such Force.

56. All summonses, warrants, orders, convictions and recognizances, and all other processes, whether civil or criminal, shall be issued or made under the hand of a magistrate or, where so authorised by or under this or any other Ordinance, under the hand of a justice of the peace:

Provided that, where expressly authorised by rules of court, writs of summons and other civil process may be issued under the hand of a clerk of court.

57. All members of the Police Force are hereby authorised and required to obey the warrants, orders and directions of a magistrate in the exercise of his criminal jurisdiction, and, in so far as such obedience may be authorised and required by any Ordinance in that behalf, of his civil jurisdiction.

(2) In any proceedings in any magistrate's court in which the language spoken by any witness or party requires to be interpreted into English, the magistrate having jurisdiction in the proceedings may appoint suitable persons as interpreters.

59. (1) In any cause or matter, and at any stage thereof, magistrate may, either of his own motion or on the application of any party, summon any person within Tuvalu to attend to give evidence, or to produce any document in his possession or power, and may examine such person as a witness, and require him to produce any document in his possession or power subject to just exceptions.

(2) Subject to the provisions of any other Ordinance for the time being in force relating to criminal procedure, in a criminal case a magistrate, in addition to the powers conferred by subsection (1), if satisfied by evidence on oath that any person can give material evidence and will not attend unless compelled to do so, may forthwith issue a warrant for the arrest and production of such witness before a magistrate's court at a time and place to be therein stated.

(3) When any witness is arrested under a warrant issued under the provisions of subsection (2), a magistrate may, upon the witness furnishing security for his appearance at the hearing of the case, with or without a surety or sureties, to the satisfaction of the magistrate, order him to be released from custody, or shall, on his failing to furnish such security, order him to be detained until the date of the hearing at which he is required to give evidence.

60. If any person summoned as provided in section 59, having reasonable notice of the time and place at which he is required to attend, after tender of his reasonable travelling expenses to and from the magistrate's court, fails to attend accordingly, and does not excuse such failure to the satisfaction of the court, he shall, independently of any other liability, be guilty of a contempt of court, and may be proceeded against by warrant to compel his attendance.

61. If, in any civil suit or matter, any person, whether appearing in obedience to a summons or brought up under warrant, being required to give evidence, refuses to take an oath, or to answer any question lawfully put to him, or to produce any document in his possession or power, and does not excuse his refusal to the satisfaction of the court, he shall, independently of anyother liability, be guilty of a contempt of court.

62. Any person present in court, whether a party or not in a cause or matter, may be compelled by any magistrate's court to give evidence, or produce any document in his possession or in his power, in the same manner and subject to the same rules as if he had been summoned to attend and give evidence, or to produce such document, and may be punished in like manner for any refusal to obey the order of the court.

63. A magistrate may issue an order under his hand to bring up any person confined as a prisoner under any sentence or otherwise to be examined as a witness in any suit or matter depending in any magistrate's court, and the gaoler, or person in whose custody such prisoner shall be, shall obey such order and shall provide for the safe custody of the prisoner during his absence from prison for the purpose aforesaid.

64. Subject to the provisions of this or any other Ordinance and to any rules of court for the time being in force, a magistrate may, in civil or criminal proceedings, order and allow to all persons required to attend or be examined as witnesses, such sum or sums of money as shall seem fit, as well for defraying the reasonable expenses of such witnesses as for allowing them a reasonable compensation for their trouble and loss of time, but it shall not be lawful, in any criminal proceeding, for any person to refuse to attend as a witness or to give evidence, when so required by process of the court, on the ground that his expenses have not been first paid or provided for.

65. All sums of money allowed under the provisions of the preceding section shall be paid in civil proceedings by the party on whose behalf the witness is called, and shall be recoverable as ordinary costs of the suit, if the magistrate shall so order, and, in criminal proceedings, they shall, where not ordered to be paid by the party convicted or prosecuted, be paid out of the Consolidated Fund.

66. In any cause or matter, a magistrate may make such order for inspection by the court, parties or witnesses of any real or personal property, the inspection of which may be material to the determination of the matter in dispute, and may give such directions with regard to such inspection as to the court may seem fit.

67. No person shall be entitled, as of right, at any time or for any purpose, to inspect the record of evidence given in any case before any magistrate's court, or to receive a copy of the notes of such court, save as may be expressly provided by any rules of court, or, in the absence of any such rules, unless the leave of a magistrate to make such inspection or receive such copy has been first had and obtained.

68. (1) Subject to the provisions of any other Ordinance, in every case heard before a magistrate's court, and at every stage thereof, the magistrate hearing such case shall, save as hereinafter provided, take down in writing the oral evidence given before the court or so much thereof as he deems material:

Provided that, should such magistrate, in any case, find himself temporarily incapacitated from taking down such evidence, he may direct that such evidence shall be taken down by the clerk of court or other officer performing the duties of such clerk.

(2) Such clerk of court or other officer referred to in the preceding subsection shall take down in writing the oral evidence in manner as aforesaid, under the supervision and control of the magistrate presiding, who may, at any time before appending his signature to such writing, amend anything therein which he may consider requires amendment; and, before so appending his signature, such magistrate shall peruse and examine such writing, and satisfy himself that it is, in substance, an accurate and faithful record of the oral evidence given.

PROTECTION OF MAGISTRATES, JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND OFFICERS OF THE MAGISTRATE'S COURT

69. No magistrate, justice of the peace or other person acting judicially shall be liable to be sued in any civil court for any act done or ordered to be done by him in the discharge of his judicial duty, whether or not within the limits of his jurisdiction, provided that he, at the time, in good faith, believed himself to have jurisdiction to do or order the act complained of; and no officer of any court or other person bound to execute the lawful warrants or orders of any such magistrate, justice of the peace or other person acting judicially shall be liable to be sued in any civil court for the execution of any warrant or order which he would be bound to execute if within the jurisdiction of the person issuing the same.

Representation of Crown, public officers in their official capacity and departments of the Government

70. In any suit or matter in which the Crown or any public officer in his official capacity or any department of the Government is a party or in any suit or matter affecting the revenues of Tuvalu, the Crown or that officer or department may be represented by the Attorney-General, a Crown counsel, legal practitioner or other person duly authorised in that behalf by the Governor-General or by the public officer or the officer in charge of the department concerned.

71. The employment of legal practitioners shall, save as may be otherwise specifically provided, be allowed in causes and matters, whether civil or criminal, before any magistrate's court.

72. The fees and costs set forth in the rules of court made under this Ordinance or any other Ordinance for the time being in force relating to criminal or civil procedure may be demanded and received by the clerks of court or other persons appointed to receive such fees and costs for and in respect of the several matters therein mentioned:

Provided that, in the absence of the clerk of court from any magistrate's court or in the event of there being no such clerk or other person appointed to receive such fees and costs in any such court, the magistrate exercising the jurisdiction thereof may demand and receive such fees and costs.

73. All fees and costs payable under or by virtue of this Ordinance shall in the first instance be paid by the party applying for the summons, warrant, or other process or document in respect whereof the same are payable:

Provided that no fees shall be payable by any public officer or public department in any case instituted by any public officer when acting in his official capacity or in any case in which the magistrate endorses on the plaint, information or complaint, as the case may be, that it is a fit one for remission of fees on account of the poverty of the party or for any other sufficient reason; and in every such case such fees and costs shall, in the discretion of the magistrate, be recoverable from the other party, if the decision be given against him.

All fees and moneys received in magistrates' courts to be subject to aforegoing provisions

74. Sections 72 and 73 shall apply to all moneys received by a clerk of court or other person appointed to receive fees and costs in any magistrate's court under the provisions of this or any other Ordinance, whether the same be fees, costs, fines, forfeitures, penalties or money paid into court for any purpose, or received or recovered under or by virtue of any process of execution or distress.

75. The Chief Justice may make rules of court under this Ordinance for all or any of the following purposes-

(a) for regulating the practice and procedure of magistrates' courts in matters not specifically provided for in this or any other Ordinance;

(c) for regulating the receipt of moneys aid into a magistrate's court, or received or recovered under or by virtue of any process, execution or distress;

(d) for regulating the payment of moneys out of a magistrate's court to persons entitled thereto;

(e) for prescribing the books and forms of account to be kept or used in magistrates' courts;

(f) for prescribing fees, costs and amounts for service of process which may be demanded and received by clerks of court and others in connection with the practice and procedure of the magistrates' courts;

(g) for prescribing for the acceptance, retention and disposal of fees and costs;

(h) for fixing tables of fees and costs recoverable by legal practitioners for their services on taxation and providing for the taxation of the same;

(i) for the better carrying into effect of the provisions and objects and intentions of this Ordinance.

76. (1) Nothing in this Ordinance contained shall affect the jurisdiction of any island court or lands court.

(2) Nothing in this Ordinance contained shall deprive any magistrate's court of the right to observe and enforce the observance, or shall deprive any person of the benefit, of any native law or custom, such law or custom not being repugnant to natural justice, equity, and good conscience, not incompatible either directly or by necessary implication with any Ordinance or other law for the time being in force in Tuvalu.

Direction under section 11 as to records to be kept and returns to be furnished by magistrates' courts

Each magistrate's court shall, subject to the express provisions of this or any other Ordinance for the time being in force, and to the terms of any direction made under section 45, keep written records and shall furnish returns in respect of all proceedings before it in like form and manner to those kept or furnished before 14th October 1963, as the case may be, in respect of proceedings before the High Court.

1. A Magistrates' court shall not have jurisdiction in an action where the value of the property, debt, demand or damage claimed is greater than $500, whether or balance of account or otherwise.

2. A Senior Magistrate's Court shall not have civil jurisdiction in an action where the value of the property, debt, demand or damage claimed is greater than $10,000, whether or balance of account or otherwise.

The person for the time being holding the office of Senior Magistrate shall have jurisdiction to make adoption orders and such jurisdiction may be exercised within every district.

1. All magistrates' courts shall have jurisdiction to try any offence coming within the provisions of-

(a) sections 53, 82, 83, 89, 100, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 117, 124, 132, 133, 134(2), 136, 137, 145, 146, 176, 177, 178, 179, 226, 230, 233, 238, 240, 247, 249, 254, 257, 258, 265(b), 267, 268, 272, 273, 274, 275, 280, 282, 295, 301, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 308(2), 318, 319(1), 322, 323, 348, 365, 367 and 372 of the Penal Code;

2. The Senior Magistrate's Court shall, in addition to those offences specified in paragraph 1, have jurisdiction to try any offence coming within the provisions of-

sections 116(a), 129, 134 (1), 151, 214, 216, 217, 218, 219, 286, 287, 292, 312, 319(2), 329(1), 335(1), 348(5) and 349 of the Penal Code.

Directions under section 45 as to the manner of making monthly returns of criminal cases

The list to be sent by every magistrate shall be in the form set out in the Schedule immediately below.

RETURN OF CRIMINAL CASES HELD DURING MONTH OF .................. 19....... AS REQUIRED BY SECTION 45 OF THE MAGISTRATES' COURTS ORDINANCE (Cap. 2)

............................................................................. Magistrate

.......................................................................... Place

Date .......................................................................................

1. These Rules may be cited as the Magistrates' Courts (Fees in Civil Cases) Rules.

2. The fees prescribed in the Schedule to these Rules shall be charged in respect of the matters to which they are respectively assigned in civil causes and matters brought in a magistrate's court.

3. The fees prescribed in the Schedule shall be paid to the clerk of the magistrate's court in which the cause or matter is to be tried.

4. A magistrate's court may if it thinks fit dispense with the payment of any fee on account of the poverty of any party or for other sufficient reason.

1.		On issue of Summons-		$	c

		(a) Where the amount involved does not exceed $20.............			50

		(b) Where the amount involved exceeds $20 but does not exceed $50 .............................................................		1	50

		(c) Where the amount involved exceeds $50 but does not exceed $100.............................................................		2	00

		(d) Where the amount involved exceeds $100 but does not exceed $150.............................................................		3	00

		(e) Where the amount involved exceeds $150 but does not exceed $200............................................................		4	00

		(f) Where the amount involved exceeds $200 but does not exceed $500............................................................		5	00

		(g) Where the amount involved exceeds $500 but does not exceed $1,000..........................................................		6	00

2.		On summons where judicial relief is sought but not the recovery of money or property and where the amount involved cannot be estimated.........................................................................		1	50

3.		On set-off or counterclaim: a fee of the same amount as the fee payable on the issue of a summons.

4.		Renewal of writ of summons, etc.: a fee of half the amount as the fee payable on the issue of a summons.

5.		On hearing: a fee of the same amount as the fee payable on the issue of a summons but if the defendant admits the claim or makes default, half the amount of such fee.

6.		On an application to enforce and order by attachment or to commit a judgment debtor to prison......................................................		1	50

7.		On every summons to a witness...............................................			50

8.		On every oath to the truth of an affidavit or deposition administered by a magistrate or by a justice of the peace.................................			50

9.		On every oath administered after office hours..............................		1	50

10.		Marking any exhibit attached to any affidavit..............................			50

11.		On every application or summons not specifically charged...............		1	50

12.		Entering by plaintiff notice of discontinuance of action...................			50

13.		Every exhibit used on trial.....................................................			50

14.		Order of attachment.............................................................		1	50

15.		Order for execution and sale...................................................		1	50

16.		Order for committal.............................................................		1	50

17.		On any order of the court not specifically charged..........................		1	50

18.		On certifying a copy of a document as an office copy.....................			50

19.		On copies of proceedings for every 72 words or part of 72 words.......			50

II. FEES - CIVIL APPEAL

1.	On giving notice of intention to appeal........................................			1	50

2.	On filing grounds of appeal......................................................			1	50

3.	For the copy of the record of appeal for the appellate court - for every 72 words of part of 72 words...................................................				50

III. SHERRIFF'S FEES

1.	For the service of writ of summons or subpoena or any other process on each defendant or witness..................................................				50

2.	In addition to No. 1, where service is to be effected on any person more than 2 miles from the nearest court house and where that journey is to be performed by land, a fee of 5 cents per mile with a minimum fee of 5 cents. The amount of the fee payable under this item is to be calculated without reference to the return journey.

3.	In addition to Nos. 1 and 2, reasonable travelling expenses actually incurred by the officer effecting service. Where an officer is engaged on more than one service the court may order that the sum payable under this item be apportioned.

4.	Seizure.............................................................................		4		00

5.	For every arrest in a civil case.................................................		2		00

6.	In conveying to prison from place of arrest a fee not exceeding 20 cents per day with reasonable travelling expenses actually incurred.

7.	For executing process of attachment or committal.........................		4		00

8.	For any duty not herein provided for.........................................		Such sum as the court may allow.

2. The forms set out in the Schedule shall be used in magistrates' courts in the exercise of their criminal jurisdiction with such adaptation as the circumstances of each case may require.

Form No.	Particulars	Section C.P.C.

1.	General Title...................................................................	-
2.	Recognisance (without sureties)............................................	40 and 107
3.	Recognisance (with sureties)....................................................	40 and 107
4.	Complaint......................................................................	76
5.	Charge (private complaint)...................................................	76
6.	Charge (complaint by public officer).......................................	76
7.	Warrant to Apprehend Defendant in the first instance...................	77
8.	Summons to Defendant.......................................................	77 and 79
9.	Notice to Attend Court........................................................	78
10.	Affidavit of Service of Summons..............................................	85 and 86
11.	Summons to Defendant........................................................	86
12.	Summons to Show Cause.....................................................	78 and 86
13.	Warrant to Apprehend Defendant where Summons is Disobeyed......	89
14.	Information to Ground Search Warrant.....................................	101
15.	Search Warrant.................................................................	101
16.	Summons to Witness..........................................................	127
17.	Warrant where a Witness has not obeyed a Summons...................	128
18.	Warrant for a Witness in the first instance.................................	129
19.	Commitment of Refractory Witness........................................	135
20.	Warrant to Remand Defendant when Arrested............................	187
21.	Warrant of Commitment for Safe Custody on Adjournment of Hearing..........................................................................	187
22.	Warrant to Arrest Accused who has not Appeared after Adjournment...................................................................	188
23.	Conviction Order...............................................................	200
24.	Deposition at Preliminary Inquiry and Trial...............................	208
25.	Statement of Accused.........................................................	211
26.	Warrant of Commitment in Custody for Trial.............................	216
27.	Order Committing Corporation for Trial..................................	216
28.	Commitment of Witness for Refusing to enter into Recognisance to give Evidence..................................................................	219
29.	Statement of Witnesses Bound Over or treated as having been Bound Over Conditionally...................................................	221
30.	Notice requiring Attendance of Witness Bound Over, or treated as Bound Over Conditionally...................................................	221
31.	Summons to an Assessor....................................................	243
32.	Summons to Interpreter......................................................	180 and 247
33.	Warrant of Commitment on a Conviction where the Punishment is by Imprisonment..............................................................
34.	Warrant of Commitment on a Conviction and in Default of Payment Imprisonment..................................................................
35.	Warrant of Distress upon a Conviction for a Fine........................
36.	Warrant of Commitment for want of Distress upon a Conviction for a Fine..........................................................................
37.	Warrant of Distress for Costs upon an Order for Dismissal of a Charge.........................................................................
38.	Warrant of Commitment for want of Distress upon an Order for Dismissal of a Charge........................................................

on the ................. day of .............. 19..., under the Magistrates' Courts Ordinance,

RECOGNISANCE (WITHOUT SURETIES)
(Criminal Procedure Code sections 40 and 107)

I, the undersigned, acknowledge myself to owe to our Sovereign Queen Elizabeth II the sum written opposite my signature hereto, to be raised by seizure and sale of my goods if the condition hereon is not fulfilled.

(a) If the within-named .......................appears before this Court on .................., at......................, to answer a charge contrary to .............................................................. then the said recognisance shall be void, and otherwise it shall be in force.

(b) If the within-named .......................................... keeps the public peace and is of good behaviour towards all persons (and especially towards ...........................) during ............................ ................................................................, then the said recognisance shall be void, and otherwise it shall be in force.

(c) If the within-named .................................................... appears before this Court on ......................................, at ..........................................................., and then and there prosecutes (and/or gives evidence on) a charge contrary to .................................................................................................................... then the said recognisance shall be void, and otherwise it shall be in force.

We, the undersigned, severally acknowledge ourselves to owe to our Sovereign Queen Elizabeth II the sums set opposite our respective signatures hereto, to be raised by seizure and sale of our several goods if the condition hereon endorsed is not fulfilled.

(a) If the within-named .......................appears before this Court on ............................, at ..........................., to answer a charge contrary to .................................................... then the said recognisance shall be void, and otherwise it shall be in force.

(b) If the within-named ........................ keeps the public peace and is of good behaviour towards all persons (and especially towards ...........................) during ......................................................, then the said recognisance shall be void, and otherwise it shall be in force.

(c) If the within-named ...................... appears before this Court on .........................., at .........................., and then and there prosecutes (and/or gives evidence on) a charge contrary to ........................................................................... then the said recognisance shall be void, and otherwise it shall be in force.

(a) ........................... of (b) .............................................. makes complaint to the undersigned Magistrate that ................................ of ......................................... did on the ....................... day of............................... 19...., at ....................................... in Tuvalu.

Taken (and sworn (or affirmed)) ...................... at .................................................................. this ................................. day of ........................................... 19.....

c Insert brief statement of offence naming Ordinance or other enactment and section contravened.

(a) ............................................ of (b) ........................... is charged on the complaint of ...................................................................... with the following offence-

........................................................... (e) ........................................................

c Insert brief statement of offence naming Ordinance or other enactment and section contravened.

NOTE. - This form is for use for charge on private complaint only. If a second sheet is necessary the signature will appear at the bottom of the second sheet only.

(c) ........................................................................ (d) ..................................................................
Sworn before me (e) .............................................................................................................. the ......................... day of ................................... 19...

b Insert name or names of accused and brief particulars of offence in ordinary language.

NOTE. - If a second sheet is necessary the signature will appear at the bottom of the second sheet only.

WARRANT TO APPREHEND DEFENDANT IN THE FIRST INSTANCE
(Criminal Procedure Code section 77)

These are to command you in Her Majesty's name to arrest and bring before me at the Magistrate's Court at .................................................................................................................... (a) ....................................... of (b) ............................................ to be dealt with according to law on the following charge(s) made on the sworn complaint of (c) ...........................................................of (d) ..............................................

It is directed that the defendant on arrest be released on bail on his/her entering into a recognisance in the sum of $....... with .................. surety/sureties in the sum of $......... [each], for his/her appearance before the Magistrate's Court at ....................... on the ............ day of ............. 19 ...., at ........ o'clock in the ..................... noon.

To - (a) .................................... of (b) ................................

You are hereby commanded to appear at ........... o'clock in the .................. noon of the................day of................ 19...., at the ......................... Magistrate's Court at ...................... there to answer the charge(s) set out hereunder and be dealt with according to law.

This is the exhibit marked "A" referred to in the affidavit of .............................................................................................................................................

Served by me, .............................................................................................................................. on the within named ................................................................................................................ on ....................................the .............................day of ............................. 19..., at ............................ o'clock in the ........................... noon at .......................................

You are hereby required to appear at .................... o'clock in the ............................... noon of the (a) ............................. day of ....................... 19 ...., at the Magistrate's Court at ........................... there to answer the following charge(s) set out hereunder and be dealt with according to law:

Provided that your personal attendance will be excused and the case may then be disposed of in your absence if-

a Insert date of hearing (not being less than 10 days from the date of service of this Notice).

I [name, address and occupation of deponent] ................................................................... make oath and say as follows-

1. I did on the ................................ day of ................................... 19...., at [state where] ................ in Tuvalu personally serve ......................... with a true copy of the writ of summons in this charge which appeared to me to have been regularly issued out of the office of the Magistrate's Court at ..................................................; a true duplicate of which summons is now produced and shown to me marked "A".

2. At the time of the said service I did endorse on the said duplicate summons, the day of the month and the week of the said service on the said .................................

To: - (a) .............................................................. of (b) ..............................................................

You are hereby required to appear at ............... o'clock in the ............. noon of the ...................... day of ............ 19..., at the Magistrate's Court at .................... there to answer the following charge(s) set out hereunder and be dealt with according to law:

Provided that your personal attendance will be excused and the case may then be disposed of in your absence if-

Served by me, ............................................................................................... on the within named ....................................................................................... on .................................. the ............................... day of .................. 19....... at ........................... o'clock in the ............................. noon at ........................

Whereas on the ............................. day of ............ 19.... you [name of defendant] were charged with the offence hereunder set out

And whereas your personal attendance was dispensed with under section 86 of the Criminal Procedure Code:

And whereas you were on the day aforesaid convicted of the said offence and ordered to pay a fine of ..................... within the period of ......... days from the date hereof:

Now therefore you the said .............................. are hereby commanded to appear before the Magistrate's Court at .......................... on the ............................... noon to show cause why you should not be committed to prison for such term as may then be prescribed.

Dated at ........................ the .................. day of ................... 19...

Served by me, ............................................................................................ on the within named ...................................................................................... on ................................ the ..................... day of ........................ 19 ... at .......................... o'clock in the ................ noon at .....................................

WARRANT TO APPREHEND DEFENDANT WHERE SUMMONS IS DISOBEYED
(Criminal Procedure Code section 89)

Whereas on the ............................................... day of ...................... 19 ...
(a) .................................. of (b) ....................... (hereinafter called the defendant) was summoned to appear before the Magistrate's Court at ............................... on the ...................... day of .................. 19..., at ........................... o'clock in the ......................... noon to answer the following charge(s)-

And whereas an oath has been made that the defendant was duly served with the summons but did not appear:

These are to command you in Her Majesty's name to arrest the defendant and bring him before me at the Magistrate's Court at ............................................ to answer the said charge(s) and be dealt with according to law.

Dated the ............................... day of ............................ 19...

It is directed that the defendant on arrest be released on bail on his/her entering into a recognisance in the sum of $............, with ................................................. surety/sureties in the sum of $....................... [each], for his/her appearance before the Magistrate's Court at ............................ on the ....................... day of ..................... 19..., at ....................... o'clock in the ................ noon.

Dated at .......................... the ........................ day of ................. 19...

(a) ............ of (b) ...................... on his oath complains that on ....................... the following goods of the value of $..............., viz.-
(c) ................................................................................................................................... were unlawfully carried away from ............................... to .................................... by some person or persons unknown, and that he has reasonable cause to suspect, and does suspect, that those goods, or some of them are concealed (d) ......................................................... occupied by ...................................of ..................................................; for he the said ............................................. says that-
(e) .........................................................................................................
Sworn (affirmed) at ....................... this ......................... day of ................... 19...

(a) ...................... of (b)................................... has this day made on oath before the Court that .................................................................................................... (c) ............................................................................................................
And it appears to the Court that (according to reasonable suspicion) the said goods, or some of them, are concealed as aforesaid. You are therefore hereby authorised and commanded in Her Majesty's name, with proper assistance, by day (or night) (d) ..................... to enter ........................................ the said (e) ................................................. if necessary by force, and there diligently to search for the said goods, and if the same or any thereof are found on search to bring the goods so found before this Court, to be dealt with according to law.

Dated the ...................... day of ................................... 19...

d Cross out words "or night" when warrant is to be executed between the hours of sunrise and sunset.

Whereas a charge(s) has/have been made on the complaint of .................................... of ............................... that ........................... of ....................................did commit the following offence(s)-

And it appearing to me by the oath of .................... that you are likely to give material evidence therein on behalf of the (a) ................................ and will not voluntarily appear for that purpose.

You are therefore hereby summoned to appear before the Magistrate's Court at ............... on the ......................... day of ...................... 19..., at ............... o'clock in the .................. noon to testify what you know in the matter; and also to bring with you and produce at the time and place aforesaid (b)............................................................

Dated the ............................. day of ................................ 19...

...................... of ................. not having appeared in obedience to a summons requiring his attendance on the ................. day of ................. at the Magistrate's Court at ...................., to give evidence on behalf of ........................ of ...................on a charge against ........................ of .............................................

These are to command you in Her Majesty's name to arrest and bring before me at ................ o'clock in the ................... noon on the ............ day of ................... the said ............ to be dealt with according to law.

It is directed that the witness on arrest be released on bail on his/her entering into a recognisance in the sum of $.........., with ....................... surety/sureties in the sum of $............... [each], for his/her appearance before the Magistrate's Court at ................ on the ...................... day of ..................... 19..., at .................. o'clock in the ..................noon.

........................... of ................... having deposed to me that ...................... is in possession of material evidence (or, is a material witness) in respect of a charge against ..................... and is not likely to give evidence unless compelled to do so:

These are to command you in Her Majesty's name to arrest and bring the said .................. before me at the Magistrate's Court at ............ at ......... o'clock in the .............. noon on the............... day of .............. 19..., to give evidence in the said matter and produce the following documents or things-

It is directed that the witness on arrest be released on bail on his/her entering into a recognisance in the sum of $................ with .......................................................................... surety/sureties in the sum of $................. [each], for his/her appearance before the Magistrate's Court at ........................... on the ...................... day of ........................ 19..., at .................... o'clock in the ................ noon.

To all Police Officers within Tuvalu and to the Officer in Charge of the prison at .......................................................................:

........................... of ................................. having this day appeared before the Magistrate's Court held at .............................. as a witness at the hearing of a charge against ........................... of .........................., refused without just excuse to be sworn (or affirmed) [or having been sworn (or affirmed) refuses to answer any question put to him] [or to produce any document or thing which he is required to produce] [or to sign his deposition]:

Whereupon the hearing of the said charge was adjourned to the ..................... day of .................... 19..., and the said ................................ was ordered to be committed to prison until such date unless he sooner consents to do what is required of him:

These are therefore to command you the said Police Officers in Her Majesty's name to convey the said .................... to the prison at ............ and there to deliver him to the Officer in Charge thereof who is hereby directed to imprison him until such date unless he sooner consents to do what is required of him and then to bring him before this Court at such adjourned hearing as aforesaid.

Dated the ......................................... day of ...................................... 19....

These are to command you the said Police Officers in Her Majesty's name to convey and deliver the said ........................ to the Officer in Charge of the prison at ...................... who is hereby directed safely to keep him until the ......................... day of .................19..., and then have him before the Magistrate's Court at ..........., at ............ o'clock in the .................. noon.

WARRANT OF COMMITMENT FOR SAFE CUSTODY ON ADJOURNMENT OF HEARING
(Criminal Procedure Code section 187)

Whereas the hearing of a charge against ............................................ has been adjourned to the .................. day of .................. 19..., at ............ o'clock in the ................. noon at the Magistrate's Court at ....................:

These are to command you the said Police Officers in Her Majesty's name that ........................ be conveyed to the prison at ..................... and there delivered to the Officer in Charge thereof who is hereby directed safely to keep him until the said day of ................... 19...., and then have him before me at the said time and place.

WARRANT TO ARREST ACCUSED WHO HAS NOT APPEARED AFTER ADJOURNMENT
(Criminal Procedure Code section 188)

Whereas on the .................. day of ............... 19..., ....................of ................................. hereinafter called the accused, appeared before the Magistrate's Court at ......................... to answer a charge(s) made on the complaint of ........................ of ......................... that he the said accused did commit the following offence(s)-

And the hearing of the said charge(s) was adjourned to the ..................... day of ............ 19..., at ................. o'clock in the ............. noon at the Magistrate's Court at ...................... at which time and place the accused failed to appear.

These are to command you the said Police Officers to arrest the accused and have him before me forthwith at the Magistrate's Court.

Dated the ........................... day of .................................... 19....

Be it remembered that on the ............... day of ............ 19...., at .....................in Tuvalu .................. of ...............is convicted before me of the following offence-

(a)
And I adjudge him for his said offence to be imprisoned in Her Majesty's prison at ............................. and there to be kept for .................. from this day:
And I adjudge him for his said offence to forfeit and pay the sum of (b) .........to be paid and applied according to law and also to pay to the said ...................... the sum of ...................... for his costs in this behalf and if the said several sums be not paid forthwith (or, on or before ........................ next) I adjudge the said ...................... to be imprisoned in Her Majesty's prison at ........................... and there to be kept for ...................... from this day unless the said several sums (and the costs and charges of conveying the said ................................... to the said prison) shall be sooner paid.

Given under my hand the day and year first abovementioned at ............................................

In the matter of a charge against ............................................................................................. of ..................................... in the presence and hearing of ............................deposes on oath (or as the case may be) as follows-

Before the Magistrate's Court ................ of ........................ (hereinafter called the accused) stands charged this .................................. day of ......................................... 19..., with the offence hereinbefore particularly set out-

And the witnesses for the prosecution having each severally been examined in the presence of the accused:

And the said charge being read and its nature explained in ordinary language to the accused:

"You will have an opportunity to give evidence on oath before me and to call witnesses. But first I am going to ask you whether you wish to say anything in answer to the charge. You need not say anything unless you wish to do so; and you have nothing to hope from any promise, and nothing to fear from any threat, that may have been held out to induce you to make any admission or confession of guilt. Anything you say will be taken down and may be given in evidence at your trial. Do you wish to say anything in answer to the charge?"

[And the above statement of the accused has been read over to him; and the accused has been told that he may sign it if he wishes;]

And the accused has been given an opportunity to give evidence himself and to call witnesses.

I certify that the above statement was given in my presence and hearing at .................... the ............................. day of ........................................ 19...., and that it contains accurately the whole statement [or evidence] given by the accused.

To all Police Officers within Tuvalu and to the Officer in Charge of the prison at ................................................................................................................................................:
.......................... of ........................... (hereinafter called the accused) having been charged this day before the Magistrate's Court held at ....................................... with the following offence-

And the said Court after inquiry into the said Offence having committed the accused for trial to the High Court to be held at ............................. on the ........................ day of ................................ 19....:

These are to command you the said Police Officers in Her Majesty's name to convey and deliver the said accused to the Officer in Charge of the prison at ........................... who is hereby directed safely to keep him until he shall be delivered in due course of law.

Dated the .................................. day of ..................................... 19...

It is directed that the accused may be released on bail on his/her entering into a recognisance in the sum of $......... with surety/sureties in the sum of $............. [each], for his/her appearance before the High Court to be held at ..................................... on the ......................... day of ................. 19..., to stand his/her trial upon any information preferred against him/her, [and, subject to the condition for his/her said appearance, to undergo medical examination by a duly qualified medical practitioner at ..................................... [and to reside, for the purpose of undergoing the said examination at the said place from the .................... day of ............. 19.., to the ................ day of ............ 19.., [or until he/she appears to stand his/her trial aforesaid.]]]

......................... Limited (hereinafter called the accused corporation) was this day charged before the Magistrate's Court held at ........................... with the following offence-

And the said Court after inquiry into the said offence having determined to commit the accused corporation for trial to the High Court to be held at ..................... on the .............. day of ............ 19...:

You the Attorney-General are hereby authorised and empowered to file an information in respect of the said offence in the High Court.

COMMITMENT OF WITNESS FOR REFUSING TO ENTER INTO RECOGNISANCE TO GIVE EVIDENCE
(Criminal Procedure Code section 219)

To all Police Officers within Tuvalu and to the Officer in Charge of the prison at .....................................................................:

........................... of .................................................................. having been charged this day before the Magistrate's Court held at ................... with the following offence-

And ....................... having been examined before the Court concerning the said offence, and being required by the Court to enter into a recognisance conditioned to attend and give evidence on the trial of ...................... refuses to do so:

These are to command you the said Police Officers in Her Majesty's name to convey and deliver the said .................................................... to the Officer in Charge of the prison at ........................................ who is hereby directed safely to keep the said ........................... until after his trial for the offence aforesaid unless in the meantime the said ....................... shall enter into such recognisance as aforesaid in the sum of $....... [with surety/sureties in the sum of $....... [each] conditioned to appear at the next Session of the High Court and there to give evidence upon the trial of any information against the said accused in respect of the said offence]

STATEMENT OF WITNESSES BOUND OVER OR TREATED AS HAVING BEEN BOUND OVER CONDITIONALLY
(Criminal Procedure Code section 221)

Committed for trial at .............................................................................................................

List of witnesses whose attendance at the trial appears to the committing Court to be unnecessary and who have accordingly been bound over to attend the trial conditionally or have been treated as having been so bound over.

Notice to attend the trial has been issued by me on the dates above-mentioned to those witnesses against whose names a date is inserted in the last column hereof.

NOTICE REQUIRING ATTENDANCE OF WITNESS BOUND OVER, OR TREATED AS BOUND OVER, CONDITIONALLY
(Criminal Procedure Code section 221)

Whereas you were on the .................. day of ............ 19..., bound over by a recognisance in the sum of $........ to appear* upon notice being given to you, at the Court specified in such notice and there to give evidence on the trial of .........................................:
[or, (where witness has been treated as bound over conditionally insert instead after asterisk*) at the next Session of the High Court or at such other Court as you should be directed, to give evidence on the trial of ........... and whereas notice was subsequently given to you that you would not be required to attend the trial unless you received notice:]

THIS IS TO GIVE YOU NOTICE that you ARE required to appear at the next Sessions of the High Court to be held at ................., and there to give evidence accordingly, and that unless you do so the said recognisance will be forthwith enforced against you.

In the matter of a charge against................................................................

You are required to attend the .............................. Court at .................... on the ................ day of ................. 19..., ................. at .............. o'clock in the .............. noon to act as assessor at the trial of the above charge.

Date at ................. the ................ day of ........................ 19...

In the matter of a charge against ................................................................................................. of .................................................................................................................................................
To..................................................., of ......................................................

YOU, the above-named ....................................................................................... are hereby required to attend this Court at .......................................... on the ........................... day of ....................... at ......................... o'clock in the ................. noon, to act as Interpreter to the trial of the above-mentioned.

WARRANT OF COMMITMENT ON A CONVICTION WHERE THE PUNISHMENT IS BY IMPRISONMENT

To all Police Officers within Tuvalu and to the Officer in Charge of the prison at ...........................................................................................................

Whereas .......................................... of ........................... was this day duly convicted before me of the following offence(s)-

and it was thereby adjudged that the said .............................................. of his offence(s) should be imprisoned in Her Majesty's Prison at .................................. and there be kept for ..................................... from this day.

These are therefore to command you the said Police Officers to take the said ........................................................ and convey him to the said prison and deliver him to the Officer in Charge thereof who is hereby directed to imprison him for the time aforesaid.

WARRANT OF COMMITMENT ON A CONVICTION AND IN DEFAULT OF PAYMENT IMPRISONMENT

To all Police Officers within Tuvalu and to the Officer in Charge of the prison at ...........................................................................................................:

Whereas ....................... of ................. was this day convicted before me of the following offence(s)

and it was thereby adjudged that the said ................................................ for his offence(s) should pay a fine of ....................................... or in default of payment be imprisoned in Her Majesty's Prison at ....................... and there to be kept for ............................. and whereas the said ..................................... hath made default.

These are therefore to command you the said Police Officers to take the said ......................................... and convey him to the said prison and deliver him to the Officer in Charge thereof who is hereby directed to imprison him the said ........................... and there to keep him for ............................ from this day unless he shall pay a fine of $......... as aforesaid.

Whereas ..................................................... of ......................................... in Tuvalu was on the ......................... day of ....................... 19..., duly convicted before me of the following offence(s)-

And it was thereby adjudged that the said .......... should for such offence pay a fine of $...... and should also pay to ......................the sum of $....... for costs (and compensation):

And whereas the said ....................... being so convicted as aforesaid and being required to pay the said sums of .................... and ................... hath not paid the same but therein hath made default:

These are therefore to command you in Her Majesty's name forthwith to make distress of the goods and chattels of the said ..................... and if within the space of ...................... days next after the making of such distress the said sums together with the reasonable charges of taking and keeping the distress shall not be paid that you do sell the said goods and chattels so by you distrained and do pay the money arising by such sale unto the Clerk of the Magistrate's Court at ....................................................... that he may pay and apply the same as by law directed and may render the over plus if any on demand to the said ...................... and if no such distress can be found then that you certify the same unto me to the end that such further proceedings may be had therein as to the law doth appertain.

Dated the .................................. day of ........................ 19....

NOTE. - If this warrant is executed outside the territorial limits of the jurisdiction of the Court issuing the same it must be endorsed by a Magistrate within the territorial limits of whose jurisdiction such property is found.

I, .......................................... [insert rank and number], stationed at .......................................................... in Tuvalu hereby certify that, by virtue of this warrant, I have made diligent search for the money and goods of the above-named ......................, and that I can find no [sufficient] money or goods of him/her whereupon the sums specified in this warrant can be levied.

To all Police Officers within Tuvalu and to the Officer in Charge of the prison at ..............................................................................................:
Whereas ............................... of ................................was on the ...................... day of ................... 19...., duly convicted before me of the following offence(s)-

and it was thereby adjudged that the said ............... should for such his offence(s) pay a fine of .................. and should also pay to .......................... the sum of ............ for costs (and compensation) and it was thereby ordered that if the said sums should not be paid the said ............ should be imprisoned in Her Majesty's prison at ............. and there to be kept for .....................................:

And whereas afterwards on the .................. day of ......... in the year aforesaid I issued a warrant to all Police Officers within Tuvalu commanding them to levy the said sums of .............. and ............ by distress and sale of goods and chattels of the said ................:

And whereas it appears to me as well by the return of ............. to the said warrant of distress as otherwise that he hath made diligent search for the goods and chattels of the said ................ but that no sufficient distress whereupon to levy the sum above-mentioned could be found.

These are therefore to command you the said Police Officers to take the said ........................ and convey him to the prison at ......... and deliver him to the Officer in Charge thereof who is hereby directed to imprison him and keep him for ................ from this day unless the said sums and all the costs and charges of the distress and of the commitment and conveying of the said ...................... to the said prison shall be sooner paid.

Dated the .......................... day of ............................ 19.....

Whereas............... of ............. as charged before me on the ............ day of ............ 19..., with the following offence(s)-

whereupon the matter of the said charge(s) was duly considered by me and it manifestly appearing to me that that said charge(s) was/were not proved I therefore dismissed the same and adjudged that the said ................. should pay to the said ................ the sum of .......... for the costs incurred by him for his defence in this behalf and hath not paid the same but therein hath made default:

These are therefore to command you in Her Majesty's name forthwith to make distress of the goods and chattels of the same ................. and if within the .............. days next after the making of such distress the said sums together with the reasonable charges of taking and keeping the distress shall not be paid that you do sell the said goods and chattels so by you distrained and do pay the money arising by such sale unto the Clerk of the Magistrate's Court at ...................................................... that he may pay and apply the same as by law directed and may render the over plus if any on demand to the said .................. and if no such distress can be found then that you certify the same unto me to the end that such further proceedings may be had therein as to the law doth appertain.

I, ............................... [insert rank and number], stationed at .................................... hereby certify that, by virtue of this warrant, I have made diligent search for the money and goods of the abovenamed .......... and that I can find no [sufficient] money or goods of him/her whereupon the sums specified in this warrant can be levied.

WARRANT OF COMMITMENT FOR WANT OF DISTRESS UPON AN ORDER FOR DISMISSAL OF A CHARGE

To all Police Officers within Tuvalu and to the Officer in Charge of the prison at ...........................................................................................:
Whereas on the .................day of ............ on the complaint of ............ of ............, .......................of ............ was charged before me with the following offence(s)

and the several proofs adduced to me in that behalf being by me duly heard and considered and it manifestly appearing to me that the said charge(s) was/were not proved I therefore dismissed the same and adjudged that the said ................................. should pay to the said .......................................... the sum of ................... for his costs incurred by him in his defence in that behalf and I ordered that if the said sum for costs should not be paid the said ......................... should be imprisoned in Her Majesty's prison at ....................................... and there to be kept for ............................................:

And whereas afterwards on the .............................. day of ....................... in the year aforesaid I issued a warrant to all Police Officers within Tuvalu commanding them to levy the said sum of ........ for costs by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the said ........................................:

And whereas it appears to me as well by the return of .............................. to the said warrant of distress as otherwise that he hath made diligent search for the goods and chattels of the said ........................... but that no sufficient distress whereon to levy the sum abovementioned could be found:

These are therefore to command you the said Police Officers to take the said ............................ and convey him to the prison at ............................. and deliver him to the Officer in Charge thereof who is hereby directed to imprison him for ............................ from this day unless the said sum and all costs and charges of the said distress amounting to a further sum of ............... shall be sooner paid.

1. These Rules may be cited as the Magistrate's Courts (Costs in Criminal Cases) Rules.

2. In these Rules "court" means a magistrate's court constituted under section 3(1).

3. A magistrate in the exercise of his criminal jurisdiction may direct the payment of the costs of the prosecution or defence or both in accordance with the provisions of these Rules out of the Consolidated Fund.

4. The costs which may be so directed to be paid are such sums as, subject to these Rules, appear to the court reasonably sufficient to compensate the prosecutor for the expense properly incurred by him in instituting and carrying on the prosecution and to compensate any person acting as an interpreter or attending to give evidence for the prosecution or defence or called to give evidence at the instance of the court for expense, trouble, or loss of time properly incurred in or incidental to the attendance and acting as an interpreter or to the giving of evidence.

5. The making of any order for the payment of costs under these Rules shall be in the discretion of the court.

6. No expenses to witnesses whether for the prosecution or defence if such witnesses are witnesses to character only shall be allowed unless the court otherwise orders.

7. (1) The allowances for costs which may be ordered to be paid under these Rules shall conform to the respective scales set out in the Schedule.

(2) If a person attends in respect of more cases than 1 he shall not be allowed more than a proportionate part of the allowance in each case.

8. (1) No full day allowance under these Rules shall be ordered to be paid to a witness unless the witness is necessarily detained away from his home or place of business or employment for at least 4 hours for the purpose of giving evidence.

(2) If the time during which the witness is necessarily so detained be less than 4 hours he shall not receive more than ¹/₂ of the allowance which he would have received had he been detained for the full day:

Provided that this provision shall not apply where the court is satisfied that a witness though absent for less than 4 hours necessarily loses in consequence of his attendance his whole day's wages or earnings.

9. Witnesses and interpreters attending court in any criminal case or matter may in addition, in the discretion of the magistrate, be allowed travelling and maintenance expenses reasonably and actually incurred.

3. To professional men, merchants, and bankers not less than $6 per day and not more than $14 per day.

4. To tradesmen, artisans, mechanics, overseers, clerks and store assistants not less than $2 per day and not more than $6 per day.

6. To persons not coming within any of the above classes and to females and children such allowances as the court may consider reasonable.

Directions under section 48 concerning the sittings of the magistrate's court

1. Sittings of the Magistrate's Court for Tuvalu shall normally be held either in the Vaiaku Maneapa, Funafuti, or in the Conference Room, Government Offices, Funafuti, but may be held elsewhere on Funafuti or on any other island of Tuvalu if the magistrate thinks fit for the convenience of persons appearing before the court, or of witnesses in any case.

2. The Magistrate's Court may sit at such times as may be required for the despatch of business before it but shall normally sit during normal working hours.

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Number of case	Name of Prosecutor	Full Name of Defendant	Sex of Defendant	Age of Defendant	Offence with which Defendant charged	Plea	Finding	Date of Finding	Sentence imposed or other order	Remarks if any (including date any fine paid)

Signature	Address	Description	Sums

Signature	Address	Description	Sums

NAME	ADDRESS	OCCUPATION	If notice to attend has subsequently been issued by the Clerk to the committing Court, the date of issue should be stated

Tuvalu Consolidated Legislation

Magistrates' Court Ordinance