Annual report on Sierra Leone / Colonial Office.

  • Great Britain. Colonial Office.
Date:
[1958]
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Credit: Annual report on Sierra Leone / Colonial Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The 1958-59 Supple?nentary Appropriation Ordinance 1958 (No. 13 of 1958) This Ordinance extends the period for which provision for the service of Sierra Leone is made under the 1958 Appropriation Ordinance, 1958 (No. 1 of 1958) to the 31st day of March, 1959, and makes supplementary provision for such extended period. It impliedly provides that in future the financial year shall be from the 1st day of April to the 31st day of March. This change from the calendar year will be beneficial in several ways; for example, the financial year will correspond with the Income Tax year and it will correspond with that of the United Kingdom. The accounting for Colonial Develop¬ ment and Welfare grants and loans will thereby be simplified, and the financial year will correspond more closely with the crop year for agricultural products. The Liquor Licensing Ordinance, 1958 (No. 14 of 1958) The Ordinance replaces the Liquor Licence Ordinance (Cap. 121), in order to extend the existing liquor licensing system of the Colony to the Protectorate so that there will be one uniform system for the whole of Sierra Leone. By the amendment to the Protectorate Ordi¬ nance (Cap. 185) under Schedule J of the Ordinance, it will no longer be lawful for holders of store licences in the Protectorate to sell intoxicating liquor other than spirits without obtaining a separate liquor licence, and holders of hawkers licences will only be able to carry for sale 12 pint bottles of beer or wine. In section 1 of the Ordinance, provision is made for the Ordinance to be brought into force in two stages so that the machinery can be set up for dealing with applications for licences before Cap. 121 is repealed. There is provision under sections 53 and 54 for current licences under Cap. 121 and current spirit licences under Cap. 185 to be valid under this Ordinance for the period of their currency. Chapter 9: Justice, Police and Prisons JUSTICE The Courts of Sierra Leone are the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone, the Magistrates’ Courts in the Colony and Protectorate and the Native Courts of the Protectorate. Supreme Court The Supreme Court has jurisdiction throughout the Colony and Protectorate, and exercises all the jurisdiction, powers and authorities which are vested in or capable of being exercised by the High Court of Justice in England, with the exception of the jurisdiction and