pœna.

(7.) Disobedience to subpoenas or warrants issued under the authority Disobedience to subof this Act to compel the attendance of witnesses before the said Assembly or any of its committees:

document.

(8.) Presenting to said Assembly, or to any committee thereof, a Presenting false forged or false document with intent to deceive the said Assembly or committee:

(9.) Forging, falsifying or unlawfully altering any of the records of Falsifying records. said Assembly, or of any committee thereof, or any document

or petition presented or filed, or intended to be presented or
filed, before said Assembly or committee, or the setting or
subscribing by any person of the name of another person to
any such document or petition with intent to deceive:

member.

(10.) The bringing of any civil action or prosecution against, or the Bringing civil action causing or effecting of any arrest or imprisonment of any against or arresting member of the said Assembly in any civil proceeding for or by reason of any matter or thing brought by him by petition, bill, regulation, motion or otherwise, or said by him before the said Assembly:

(11.) The causing or effecting of the arrest, detention or molestation Arresting for debt,

of a member of the said Assembly for any debt or cause what- etc.

ever of a civil nature during a Session of the said Assembly,

or during the twenty days preceding or the twenty days
following such Session.

enquiring and punishing.

And for the purpose of this Act the said Assembly is hereby Jurisdiction given as declared to possess all such powers and jurisdiction as may be to necessary or expedient for enquiring into, judging and pronouncing upon the commission, or doing of any such acts, matters or things, and awarding and carrying into execution the punishment thereof provided for by this Act.

travention of s. 5.

6. Every person who, upon such enquiry, appears to have com- Punishment for conmitted or done any of the acts, matters or things in section 5 mentioned, in addition to any other penalty or punishment to which he may by law be subject, shall be liable to an imprisonment for such time during the Session of the Legislative Assembly then being held, as may be determined by the Legislative Assembly.

7. Whenever the Legislative Assembly declares that any person Proceedings on conhas been guilty of a contempt for any of the acts, matters and things travention of s. 5. in section 5 set forth, and directs such person to be taken into custody or to be imprisoned, the Speaker shall issue his warrant to the Sergeant-at-Arms attending the House, or to the keeper or governor of the Provincial Gaol in the County of Victoria, to take such person into custody and to keep and detain him in custody in accordance with the order of the said Legislative Assembly in that behalf.

Decision of Assembly to be final.

Short title.

8. The determination of the Legislative Assembly upon any proceeding under this Act, and within the Legislative authority of this Province, shall be final and conclusive.

9. This Act may be cited as the "Legislative Assembly Privileges Act, 1892."

VICTORIA, B. C.:

Printed by RICHARD WOLFENDEN, Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.

[24th February, 1892.]

WHEREAS it is desirable to limit the jurisdiction of Stipendiary

Magistrates and Justices of the Peace, respectively, either to Counties or Electoral Districts in the Province, or to a less extensive jurisdiction:

Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

C. A., 1888, c. 78.

1. This Act may be cited as the "Magistrates' Act Amendment Short title. Act, 1892."

2. In this Act the words " Electoral District" shall mean an Meaning of "ElecElectoral District as defined in the " Constitution Amendment Act, toral District." 1890," and any Act amending the same.

3. No Commission to a Stipendiary Magistrate or a Justice of the Commissions to S. Peace shall henceforth be issued for a more extensive jurisdiction than M. or J. P. henceeither a County or an Electoral District of the Province.

forth to be limited.

4. Excepting Commissions to be issued under this Act, all existing Cancels existing Commissions appointing Stipendiary Magistrates, and all existing commissions. General Commissions of the Peace and Supplementary Commissions of the Peace are hereby cancelled and revoked; but the cancellation and revocation of such Commissions shall not avoid or prevent the appointment, under this Act, of any person named as a Stipendiary Magistrate or a Justice of the Peace in any Commission so cancelled or revoked.

Amends Form A of first Schedule.

Oaths of office to be

5. Section 2 of the "Magistrates' Act" is hereby repealed, and the following section substituted therefor :

"2. It shall be lawful for the Lieutenant-Governor in Council from time to time to appoint, by Commissions under the Great Seal of the Province, fit and proper persons to be Stipendiary Magistrates for any County or Electoral District in the Province, or for any less extensive jurisdiction, and by order in Council from time to time to cancel and revoke the said Commissions and appointments, or any of them."

6. Section 4 of the "Magistrates' Act" is hereby repealed, and the following section substituted therefor :

"4. It shall be lawful for the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, whenever he shall think fit, to issue either a General Commission of the Peace or Supplementary Commissions of the Peace, appointing, by Letters Patent under the Public Seal of the Province, a Justice or Justices of the Peace in and for any County or Electoral District in the Province of British Columbia, or in or for any less extensive jurisdiction, and so from time to time to issue Supplementary Commissions of the Peace, limited as aforesaid. The appointment of any person as a Justice of the Peace, whether the same be contained in a General Commission or a Supplementary Commission, may be cancelled by order of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council; but such cancellation shall not affect the authority or office of any other Justices named in the same Commission."

7. It shall not be necessary for any Stipendiary Magistrate or Justice of the Peace to be named in any Commission to be issued under this Act, who in manner provided by law had taken and subscribed the oaths of office as a Justice of the Peace or Stipendiary Magistrate under a former Commission, although for a greater or less extensive jurisdiction, to re-qualify himself by again subscribing to the oaths of office of a Justice of the Peace or Stipendiary Magistrate, unless since taking such oath such Justice of the Peace or Stipendiary Magistrate has taken an oath of allegiance to some foreign power.

8. Form A of the first Schedule of the said Act is hereby amended. by striking out the words "District or City of" in the second line thereof, and substituting therefor "County or Electoral District of (or) part of the County or Electoral District of."

9. Every person appointed a Stipendiary Magistrate or a Justice of taken, etc., within the Peace shall take and transmit the oaths as prescribed in the ninth thirty days from appointment. section of the "Magistrates Act," within thirty days from his appointment (unless such time is extended by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council); otherwise, such appointment shall absolutely cease and determine.

Act to come into

10. Section 4 of this Act shall not come into operation until a day When s. 4 of this to be fixed by order of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, notice of operation. which shall be published in the British Columbia Gazette.

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11. The word "County" in this Act shall mean and include such Meaning of word County." several tracts of land as are comprised within the limits of the jurisdiction of the several Sheriffs of the Province of British Columbia under the "Sheriffs' Act."

be for two or more

12. Nothing in this or any Act shall prevent the appointment of Appointments may the same person as a Stipendiary Magistrate or Justice of the Peace, jurisdictions. as the case may require, for two or more Counties, Electoral Districts, or jurisdictions.

VICTORIA, B.C.:

Printed by RICHARD WOLFENDEN, Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.