   SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS) (JURISDICTION) [ CAP. 306.            1
CHAPTER 306
SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (CRIMINAL 
PROCEEDINGS) (JURISDICTION) ACT
To establish the jurisdiction for the trial of persons charged with offence
against the Supplies and Services Act, (Cap. 117) and regulations made
thereunder.
(15th July, 1983) *
Enacted by ACT XII of 1983, as amended by Act VIII of 1990.
Short title.
(Criminal Proceedings) (Jurisdiction) Act.
Jurisdiction. 
Amended by: 
VIII. 1990.3.  
Cap. 117.    
Cap. 9.
2. All offences against the Supplies and Services Act, and
against any regulations made thereunder committed after the 9th
day of December, 1982, shall be tried by the Court of Magistrates,
and, save as in so far as they are not inconsistent with the
provisions of this Act, the provisions of the Criminal Code shall
apply to proceedings before such court and to proceedings on
appeal from any judgment of the said court:
Provided that proceedings may be commenced at any time
within one year from the commission of the offence:
Provided further that the Attorney General shall always have
a right of appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeal from any
judgment given by the Court of Magistrates.
Proceedings 
pending before the 
Price Control 
Tribunal.  Amended 
by: 
VIII. 1990.3 . 
Cap. 9.
3. (1) All cases which, on the 28th day of June, 1983, were
pending before the Tribunal referred to in the Price Control
Tribunal (Constitution) Regulations, 1982, †  shall, for all intents
and purposes of law, be deemed to have been commenced before
the Court of Magistrates in accordance with the provisions of the
Criminal Code relating to proceedings before such court sitting as a
court of criminal judicature and to be pending before the said court
on the date of the coming into force of this Act and on that date
adjourned  sine die  by the said court.
Charges and 
summonses. 
Cap. 9.
(2) Any charge for any offence made before the coming into
force of this Act under the provisions of the Price Control Tribunal
(Constitution) Regulations, 1982 ‡ ,  and any summons issued in
relation thereto, shall be deemed for all intents and purposes of law,
to have been made or issued under the provisions of the Criminal
Code, and any reference to the Price Control Tribunal therein
contained shall be read and construed as a reference to the Court of
Magistrates.
* See  Government Notice No. 408 of 15th July, 1983
†Revoked by section 4 of the Act as originally enacted, which section has been
omitted under the Statute Law Revision Act, 1980.
‡Revoked by section 4 of the Act as originally enacted, which section has been
omitted under the Statute Law Revision Act, 1980.
