O ACTS OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA RELATING TO CRIMINAL LAW AND TO PROCEDURE IN CRIMINAL CASES; Passed in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Sessions of the 1st Parliament; in the 1st Session of the 2nd Parliament and the 1st Session of the 3rd Parliament of Canada. PRINTED BY BROWN CHAMBERLIN, LAW PRINTER TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. NOTE. This volume is a reprint of such Statutes of the Parliament of . Canada, passed from 1867 to 1874 inclusive, as have reference exclusively (or almost entirely so) to Criminal Law or Procedure. Being reprints, no alterations have been made where sections have been amended or repealed. Any amending or repealing Acts will be found in the volume. It must be noted also that very many of the General Statutes of Canada, passed during the same period, have penal clauses inserted in them. Such clauses are not to be found in this volume. For access to them, reference must be had to the volume of Statutes of each year, in which such Statutes appear at length. Η HER 31 VICTORIA. CHAP. L. An Act respecting the Statutes of Canada. [Assented to 21st December, 1867.] and wi ER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Preamble. Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: FORM OF ENACTING. ing clause. 1. The following words may be inserted in the Preambles Form of enactof Statutes and shall indicate the authority by virtue of which they are passed: "Her Majesty, by and with the advice and "consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, "enacts as follows:" Other clause s concise form. 2. After the insertion of the words aforesaid, which shall to follow in follow the setting forth of the considerations or reasons upon which the law is grounded, and which shall with these considerations or reasons constitute the entire Preamble, the various clauses of the Statute shall follow in a concise and enunciative form. INTERPRETATION. tation clauses apply to all passed. Acts hereafter 3. This section and the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and The interpreeighth sections of this Act, and each provision thereof, shall extend and apply to every Act passed in the Session held in this thirtieth year of Her Majesty's reign, and in any future Sessin of the Parliament of Canada, except in so far as the provision is inconsistent with the intent and object of such Act, or the interpretation which such provision would give to any word, expression or clause is inconsistent with the context, and except in so far as any provision thereof is in any such Act declared not applicable thereto;- Nor shall the omission in any Act of a declaration that the "Interpretation Act" shall apply thereto, be construed to prevent its so applying, although such express declaration may be inserted in some other Act or Acts of the same Session. See Chap. 28. |