SOLOMON ISLANDS

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CODE
(AMENDMENT) ACT 2009

(NO. 18 of 2009)

PASSED by the National Parliament this seventeenth day of August 2009. (This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the Bill passed by Parliament and found by me to be a true copy of the Bill)

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Taeasi Sanga (Mrs)
Clerk to National Parliament

ASSENTED to in Her Majesty's name and on Her Majesty's behalf this twenty-eighth day of August 2009.

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Frank Utu Ofagioro Kabui (CSI, CMG, OBE) 
Governor General

Date of Commencement: (See section 1)

AN ACT TO AMEND TIM CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CODE ACT (CAP. 7) AND RELATED MATTERS.

ENACTED by the National Parliament of Solomon Islands.
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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CODE (AMENDMENT) ACT 2009

Citation and commencement

1. This Act may be cited as the Criminal Procedure Code (Amendment) Act 2009, and commences on the day appointed by the Minister, by notice in the Gazette.

Section 4 amended

2. Section 4 of the principal Act is amended in paragraph (c) (ii), by deleting "two hundred dollars" and substituting "10,000 penalty units".

Section 7 amended

3. Section 7 of the principal Act is amended -

(a) in subsection (1)(b), by deleting "one thousand dollars" and substituting "50,000 penalty units"; and

(b) in subsection (2)(b), by deleting "two hundred dollars" and substituting "10,000 penalty units".

Consequential amendments

4. Section 27 of the Magistrates' Courts Act (Cap. 20) is amended -

(a) in sub-paragraph (ii) of the proviso to subsection (1)(b), by deleting "one thousand dollars" and substituting "50,000 penalty units";

(b) in subsection (2)(a)(ii), by deleting "two hundred dollars" and substituting "10,000 penalty units".

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