Section 7: Additional powers of Visiting Magistrate
consolidated text (as at 2000). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
7. Additional powers of Visiting Magistrate
(1) Where a matter is pending before the Intermediate Court or a District
Court and the Court wishes to hear the evidence of a witness who is a
resident of Agaléga, a Magistrate of that Court may issue an order for the
Visiting Magistrate to record de bene esse the evidence of the witness.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), section 174 of the Courts Act
shall have effect as if the evidence of the resident of Agaléga was required
in a matter before the Supreme Court.