An Ordinance to abolish the division of offences into felonies and misdemeanours; to amend and simplify the law in respect of matters related to the abolition of that distinction; and for connected purposes.
[1 July 1991] L.N. 236 of 1991
(Format changes—E.R. 3 of 2018)
(Enacting provision omitted—E.R. 3 of 2018)
This Ordinance may be cited as the Administration of Justice (Felonies and Misdemeanours) Ordinance.
All distinctions between felony and misdemeanour are abolished.
Subject to this Ordinance, on all matters on which a distinction has previously been made between felony and misdemeanour, including mode of trial, the law and practice in relation to all offences (including piracy) shall be the law and practice applicable at the commencement of this Ordinance in relation to misdemeanour.
[cf. 1967 c. 58 s. 1 U.K.]
Subject to any amendment or repeal made by this Ordinance, the following shall have effect in relation to any Ordinance enacted before this Ordinance—
any Ordinance creating an offence by declaring it to be felony or misdemeanour shall be read as declaring it to be an offence, and nothing in this Ordinance shall affect the operation of any reference to an offence in any other Ordinance by reason only of the reference being in terms no longer applicable after the commencement of this Ordinance;
nothing in this Ordinance shall affect the punishment provided for an offence by any other Ordinance.
[cf. 1967 c. 58 s. 12(5) U.K.]
(Repealed 25 of 1998 s. 2)
(Repealed 13 of 1999 s. 3)
(Omitted as spent—E.R. 3 of 2018)
(Omitted as spent—E.R. 3 of 2018)
(Omitted as spent—E.R. 3 of 2018)
(Repealed 13 of 1999 s. 3)