Supreme Court Of Judicature

Cap. 91 · Revised Edition 2020 · 179 sections

s. 1Short title
s. 2Interpretation
s. 3Seal
s. 4The registry and the Registrar
s. 5Registrar to have power of judge in chambers
s. 6Deputy registrar and assistant registrar
s. 7Salaries of Registrar, deputy registrar and assistant registrar
s. 8Qualification of Registrar
s. 9Registrar to administer oaths
s. 10Taxing Master
s. 11Marshal, deputy marshal, assistant marshals and other officers
s. 12Officers to be under direction of Chief Justice
s. 13Duties and liability of marshal
s. 14Duties of officers of the Court generally
s. 15Appointment of Commissioners and their powers
s. 16Employment of experts and referees
s. 17Divisions of the court into Civil and Criminal
s. 18Jurisdictions, powers and authorities of the Court
s. 19Jurisdiction in insolvency, etc
s. 20Jurisdiction in infancy, lunacy, etc
s. 21Exercise of Civil Jurisdiction
s. 22Proceedings in Court and in chambers
s. 23Exercise of criminal jurisdiction
s. 24Appeal from inferior courts
s. 25Declaring Court a Colonial Court of Admiralty
s. 26Power to reduce interest
s. 27Injunctions and appointment of receivers
s. 28Power to make orders in cases not provided for
s. 29Saving of jurisdiction
s. 30Writ of habeas corpus
s. 31Law and equity to be concurrently administered
s. 32Equities of plaintiff
s. 33Equitable defences
s. 34Counterclaims and third parties
s. 35Equities appearing incidentally
s. 36Defence or stay instead of injunction or prohibition
s. 37Common law and statutory rights and duties
s. 38Determination of matter completely and finally
s. 39Rules of equity prevail
s. 40Division of country into districts
s. 41Distribution of business
s. 42Continuous sittings in criminal jurisdiction
s. 43Disposal of business before two or more courts
s. 44Sittings in civil jurisdiction
s. 45Continuance of sittings and adjournment
s. 46Places of sitting of Court
s. 47Holding of sitting in another place
s. 48Sitting in Northern or Southern Districts
s. 49Repealed
s. 50Venue in criminal proceedings
s. 51Venue in civil action
s. 52Change of venue
s. 53Business in chambers
s. 54Special sitting
s. 55Attendance of jurors at special sitting
s. 56Attendance of police at sittings
s. 57Vacation and holidays
s. 58Delivery of judgment in vacation
s. 59General business of the Court
s. 60Regulation of practice and procedure in the several jurisdictions of the Court
s. 61Judges’ Rules, 1964
s. 62Reference for report
s. 63Reference for trial
s. 64Powers and remuneration of referees and arbitrators
s. 65Court to have powers as in references by consent
s. 66Statement of case pending arbitration
s. 67Power of Court to impose terms as to costs
s. 68Saving for Government
s. 69Explanation of term “reference”
s. 70Exercise of jurisdiction in summary procedure
s. 71Prescribing summary procedure
s. 72Determination by summary procedure of action of tort commenced in the court
s. 73Persons by whom process may be served
s. 74Return or indorsation of service
s. 75Person signing return of service falsely or without authority
s. 76Fiats and their execution
s. 77Execution of warrants of arrest
s. 78Service of process by non-commissioned police officer
s. 79Procedure by Registrar
s. 80Officers of Court in respect of particular duties
s. 81Writ of subpoena
s. 82Writ of habeas corpus ad testificandum
s. 83Compelling attendance of witness by warrant or order
s. 84Writs of subpoena, etc., rules
s. 85Allowance to witnesses in civil cases
s. 86Party on whose behalf witness called to pay allowance
s. 87Fees and costs to be prescribed by rules of court
s. 88Disallowance of costs in certain cases
s. 89Fees for arrests and apprehensions
s. 90Place of payment of fees
s. 91Keeping of cash fee book
s. 92Furnishing of half-yearly lists of unclaimed moneys
s. 93Effect of moneys remaining unclaimed for five years
s. 94Default of Registrar
s. 95Power to make rules of court
s. 96Saving of the Supreme Court Rules, 1926
s. 97Officers required to attend sittings
s. 98Usher and Crier, Northern District or Southern District
s. 99Conveyance of records to and from Northern District and Southern District
s. 100Deputy registrar for the Districts
s. 101Drawing up of judgment or order in the Districts
s. 102Punishment for criminal contempt
s. 103Right of appeal to Court of Appeal
s. 104Contempt of Court committed in presence of the Court
s. 105Extent of powers of Court touching contempt
s. 106Disposal of fines
s. 107Right of appeal from decision of inferior court
s. 108Regulating appeal from decision of inferior court
s. 109Court to have control of security
s. 110Provisions to apply to cases between the Government and the subject
s. 111Available grounds of appeal
s. 112Appeal not to operate as stay of execution
s. 113Review on application of the Director of Public Prosecutions
s. 114Limitation of hearing by grounds of appeal
s. 115Objection of form to grounds of appeal
s. 116Objection of form to information or conviction
s. 117Defects in proceedings under appeal
s. 118Error or defect in notice of appeal or recognisance
s. 119Power of the Court with regard to new evidence
s. 120Power of the Court generally
s. 121Decisions to be reduced to writing
s. 122Application to the Court to compel magistrate to entertain complaint
s. 123Application to the Court to compel magistrate or justice to do act
s. 124Service of documents
s. 125Definition of “magistrate” in this Part
s. 126Saving of Governor-General’s prerogative of pardon.0
s. 127Pending appeals
s. 128Rules
s. 129Grounds of petition for divorce
s. 129A—
s. 130Definition of “care and treatment” in relation to insanity
s. 131Restriction on petitions for divorce during first three years after marriage
s. 132Provision as to making adulterer co-respondent
s. 133Duty of Court on presentation of petition
s. 134Dismissal of respondent or co-respondent from proceedings
s. 135Relief to respondent on petition for divorce
s. 136Intervention by Attorney General in petition for divorce, etc
s. 137Provisions as to costs where Attorney General intervenes or shows cause
s. 138Decree nisi for divorce or nullity of marriage
s. 139Re-marriage of divorced persons
s. 140Decree of judicial separation
s. 141Divorce proceedings after grant of judicial separation or other relief
s. 142Decree for restitution of conjugal rights
s. 143Periodical payments in default of compliance with decree for restitution of conjugal rights
s. 144Additional grounds for decree of nullity
s. 145Proceedings for decree of presumption of death and dissolution of marriage
s. 146Time at which proceedings for alimony, etc., may be commenced in suits for divorce or nullity
s. 147Jurisdiction in the case of husband’s change of domicile
s. 148Jurisdiction where husband domiciled abroad and wife resident in Belize
s. 148A—
s. 148G—
s. 149Applicable law in proceedings under section 147 or 148
s. 150Declaration of legitimacy, etc
s. 151Damages
s. 152Alimony
s. 153Custody of children
s. 154Wife’s property in case of judicial separation
s. 155Protection of third parties
s. 156Power to vary orders
s. 157Power to allow intervention on terms
s. 158Evidence of husband or wife admissible to prove marital intercourse
s. 159Certain evidence in nullity proceedings to be in camera
s. 160Grant of probate and letters of administration
s. 161Proof of will in solemn form
s. 162Certain decrees, etc., may be set aside
s. 163Contested cases to be tried in open Court
s. 164Probate, etc., may be granted to a person other than the one entitled
s. 165Rules
s. 166Power of Court to award interest on debts and damages
s. 167Judgment debts to carry interest
s. 168Restriction on institution of vexatious actions
s. 169Relief against forfeiture for non-payment of rent
s. 170Execution of instruments by order of Court
s. 171Abolition of information in the nature of quo warranto
s. 172Objections for the purpose of appeal
s. 173Jurisdiction with respect to foreigners
s. 174Procedure in case of imprisonment
s. 175Restriction on officer’s purchase of property sold at execution
s. 176Public Services Commission, Judicial and Legal Services Commission