THE REPUBLIC OF KIRIBATI
(No. 8 of 1990)

I assent,

(Sgd: I.T. Tabai)
Beretitenti.
9/1/91

AN ACT TO AMEND THE MAGISTRATES’ COURTS ORDINANCE (CAP. 52)

Commencement: 1990

MADE by the Maneaba ni Maungatabu and assented to by the Beretitenti.

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment) Act, 1990.

Amendment to section 78

2. Section 78 is hereby amended by deleting the phrase "shall be final and shall not be appealable to any Court" and substituting the phrase "shall be appealable to the Kiribati Court of Appeal".

Amendment to section 79

3. Section 79 is hereby amended by deleting the phrase "other than a land cause or matter in such cases" between the words "appeal" and "and".

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Publsihed by exhibition –

(a)	at the Public office of the Beretitenti on the 9th day of January 1991

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Secretary to the Cabinet

(b)	at the Maneaba ni Maungatabu on the 9th day of January 1991

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Clerk to the Maneaba ni Maungatabu

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MAGISTRATES’ COURTS (AMENDMENT) ACT 1990

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

The purpose of the Act is to make it possible for land causes or matters to go up to the Court of Appeal.  Currently it is not legally possible to do so.

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Teburoro Tito MP
(Urban Tarawa)

Legal Report

I hereby certify that in my opinion none of the provisions of the above Act conflict with the Constitution and that the Beretitenti may properly assent to the Act.

Michael N. Takabwebwe
Attorney General
14th December 1990