Legislation
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1002/j.1099-162X.1958.tb01164.x |
| Date | 01 April 1958 |
| Published date | 01 April 1958 |
NIGERIA
(NORTHERN
REGION)
II9
Legislation
1.
LOCAL
GOVERNMENT
TAN
GANT
I KA Local
Government
Election (Urban
Areas) (Amendment)
Ordinance
No. 23
qf
1957
ＱＧｾｉｓ
amending ordinance affects
the
principal ordinance, No. 44
of
19561
in
,
11l1nor
respects only.
One
section extends the present restriction on an employee
of the Government standing for election without
the
permission of his depart-
l1lent
to include employees
of
the
East
Africa
High
Commission.
In
another
the procedure for objection to candidates
and
for
the
determination of questions
relating to their nomination is laid down.
II.
LAW
NORTHERN
RHODESIA
Native
Courts
(Amendment)
Ordinance
No. 34
qf
1957
1'lilsamending ordinance allows a court, when exercising appeal jurisdiction
Underprovision of
the
principal ordinance, to make full use of African assessors
as advisors on native
law
and
custom,
and
is similar to
the
Barotse Native
COurts
(Amendment) Ordinance noticed in the
January
number
of this
Journal
2•
Native
Courts
(Amendment)
Law
No. 12
qf
1957
ｾｏｎｇ
the
minor
amendments to
the
1956 law here introduced
are
provisions
ｾｲ
the
appointment
of
an
acting alkali in
the
absence of a substantive alkali
°anative court,
and
others designed to remove
any
misconception
that
the
general powers of transfer
under
the
principal law
are
in
any
way limited by
the
pOWers
of review.
The
position as to whether a'rehearing' includes a
'retrial'
ISb
clarified
and
it
is
made
clear
that
other laws relating to
land
have
not
been
a rogated by the general provisions of the principal law.
Probation
qf
Offenders
Law
No. 19
qf
1957
Ｚｬｩｾ
law repeals
and
replaces the somewhat restricted measures relating to
the
thO
ation
of
offenders in
the
Criminal Procedure Ordinance.
It
provides for
a
e.
appointment of probation officers
and
supervisory probation committees
hSIb
snormal elsewhere. Native courts will now have powers to administer
the
t'ro f
Ga Ion system only if
the
necessary powers
are
conferred
upon
them
by
the
ino:hrnor,
and
they will then have the same functions as a magistrate's
court
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ofa
probation order.
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of
African
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JOUrnal
of
African
Administration,
Vol, X, No.
I,
January 1958, p. 58.
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