SLAVE TRADE ACT 1843 - SECT 4 Evidence may be taken abroad, and transmitted to the Crown Court, on indictments, &c. for offences under recited Acts and this Act.

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SLAVE TRADE ACT 1843 - SECT 4

Evidence may be taken abroad, and transmitted to the Crown Court, on indictments, &c. for offences under recited Acts and this Act.

4.(1) Recital as to insufficiency of Acts for abolition of slave trade out of
the United Kingdom rep. by SLR 1891. In all cases of indictment ... for
misdemeanors or offences committed against the said Acts or against this
present Act in any places out of the United Kingdom, and within any British
colony, settlement, plantation, or territory, it shall and may be lawful for
[the Crown Court], upon motion to be made on behalf of the prosecutor or
defendant, to award [an order or orders of mandamus], requiring the chief
justice or other chief judicial officer in such colony, settlement,
plantation, or territory, who are hereby respectively authorized and required
accordingly, to hold a court, with all convenient speed, for the examination
of witnesses and receiving other proofs concerning the matters charged in such
indictments ..., and in the meantime to cause public notice to be given of the
holding of such courts, and summonses to be issued for the attendances of
witnesses and of agents and counsel of the parties; and such examination as
aforesaid shall be then and there openly and publicly taken in the said court
viva8 voce, upon the respective oaths of the persons examined, and be reduced
to writing, and be sent to [the Crown Court]; and such depositions being duly
taken and returned according to the true intent and meaning of this Act, shall
be allowed and read, and shall be deemed as good and competent evidence as if
such witnesses had been present and sworn and examined viva8 voce at any trial
for such misdemeanors and offences as aforesaid ..., any law or usage to the
contrary thereof notwithstanding.

Subs.(2) rep. by SL(R) 1976

Ss.5, 6 rep. by SLR 1891. S.7 rep. by SLR 1874 (No. 2)

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SLAVE TRADE ACT 1843 - SECT 4