A Compendium of Official Documents Relative to Native Affairs in the South Island. Volume Two.
Analysis
Analysis.
Jurisdiction as to Natives.
103. | Natives not to be apprehended or imprisoned except by authority of Resident Magistrate or Chairman of Petty Sessions. |
104. | Native charged with larceny and confessing may be summarily convicted. |
105. | Native convicted of theft may be discharged upon paying four times the value of property stolen. |
106. | Value in certain cases to be awarded to owner of stolen property. |
107. | Appointment of Assessors. |
108. | Jurisdiction in cases between Natives. |
109. | Mode of hearing Native cases. |
110. | Judgment in Native cases. |
111. | Jurisdiction in cases between Native and European. |
112. | Distress warrants against Natives to be signed by Resident Magistrate of district where executed. |
113. | Resident Magistrate may delay execution against Native. |
114. | Payment of Assessors. |
115. | Chairman of Petty Seesions to exercise power of Resident Magistrate in Native cases. |
116. | Governor may proclaim sections specially relating to Natives to be inoperative in certain districts, and may cancel such Proclamation. |
Clause 2 repeals, besides other Acts, an Ordinance to provide for the establishment of Resident Magistrate's Courts, passed by the Lieutenant-Governor and Legislative Council, (Session 7, No. 16.)
"Resident Magistrate Court Ordinance Amendment Act, 1856, No, 20;" "The Resident Magistrate's Court Act, 1858;" and Section 31 of "The Native Circuit Courts Act, 1858."
Clause 39 provides that all summonses, warrants, &c., addressed to Natives, shall be accompanied by a Maori translation.