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Mobile magistrates

Cap. 94, s. 9 · Revised Edition 2020

(1) The Public Services Commission may appoint fit and proper persons mobile magistrates, and shall direct in what judicial district, or in what part of any judicial district or districts, any mobile magistrate shall act. (2) A mobile magistrate shall have all the powers and jurisdiction of a magistrate in the judicial district in which he is appointed to act, but he or she shall only exercise those powers and that jurisdiction when and for such period as he or she may be directed by the Public Services Commission to do so. (3) Subject to sub-section (1) and (2), all enactments relating to magistrates shall apply to mobile magistrates.
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Mobile magistrates — Cap. 94 s. 9 · Belize Law