Title : Composition of Coast Guard Courts
State : Central
Year : 1978
(1) a coast guard court shall consist of not less than five officers each of whom has held the post of assistant commandant for not less than three years. explanation.-- for the purposes of this sub-section "assistant commandant" includes any post of a .....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Place of Trial
State : Central
Year : 1978
a coast guard court may be held on shore or afloat.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Choice Between Criminal Court and Coast Guard Court
State : Central
Year : 1978
when a criminal court and a coast guard court have each jurisdiction in respect of an offence, it shall be in the discretion of the director-general or the inspector-general or the deputy inspector-general within whose command the accused person is .....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Power of Criminal Court to Require Delivery of an Offender
State : Central
Year : 1978
(1) when a criminal court having jurisdiction is of opinion that proceedings shall be instituted before itself in respect of any alleged offence, it may, by written notice, require the officer referred to in section 71 at his option either to deliver over .....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Law Officer
State : Central
Year : 1978
every coast guard court shall be attended by a law officer, or if no such officer is available, an officer approved by the chief law officer or a law officer.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Challenges
State : Central
Year : 1978
(1) at all trials by a coast guard court, as soon as the court is assembled, the names of the presiding officer and members shall be read over to the accused, who shall thereupon be asked whether he objects to being tried by any officer sitting on the .....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Voting by Members
State : Central
Year : 1978
(1) subject to the provisions of sub-sections (2) and (3), every decision of a coast guard court shall be passed by an absolute majority of votes; and where there is an equality of votes on either the finding or the sentence, the decision shall be in .....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Judicial Notice
State : Central
Year : 1978
a coast guard court may take judicial notice of any matter within the general knowledge of the members as officers of the coast guard.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Commissions for Examination of Witnesses
State : Central
Year : 1978
(1) whenever, in the course of a trial by a coast guard court, it appears to the court that the examination of a witness is necessary for the ends of justice, and that the attendance of such witness cannot be procured without an amount of delay, expense .....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Examination of a Witness on Commission
State : Central
Year : 1978
(1) the prosecutor and the accused person in any case in which a commission is issued under section 81 may respectively forward any interrogatories in writing which the court may think relevant to the issue, and the magistrate executing the commission .....
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