REPUBLIC OF NAURU
SUPREME COURT (AMENDMENT) ACT 2019
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No. 4 of 2019
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An Act to amend the Supreme Court Act 2018 
Certified: 22nd March 2019

Table of Contents
1 Short title
2 Commencement
3 Amendment of the Supreme Court Act 2018
4 Amendment of section 38

Enacted by the Parliament of Nauru as follows:
1	Short title
This Act may be cited as the Supreme Court (Amendment) Act 2019.
2	Commencement
This Act commences upon certification by the Speaker.	
3	Amendment of the Supreme Court Act 2018
The Supreme Court Act 2018 is amended by the provisions of this Act.
4	Amendment of section 38
Section 38(2) is deleted and substituted as follows:
 ‘(2) Where the District Court has acquitted an accused person in any criminal cause or matter:

(a)	the Director of Public Prosecutions; or 

(b)	with his or her sanction in writing, the person who prosecuted the criminal cause or matter before the District Court, -
may appeal the judgment, decision or order of acquittal to the Supreme Court.’