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Deportees
Cap. 98, s. 55 · Revised Edition 2020
(1) Every person who is deported to Belize from another country (hereinafter referred to as a “deportee”) shall, if so required by the Commissioner of Police by notice in writing,
(a) report to the police daily or at such other intervals as may be specified, at the time and place designated by the police;
(b) not change his residence without prior notification to the Commissioner of Police;
(c) not associate with any criminal gang or a member thereof;
(d) comply with any other requirements as the Commissioner of Police may specify.
(2) Every person who contravenes subsection (1) of this section, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year.
(3) For the purpose of this section, a certificate under the hand of the Commissioner of Police or an officer designated by him to the effect that a person was deported to Belize from another country shall be conclusive evidence of that fact.
(4) Notwithstanding any rule of law to the contrary, a deportee upon conviction for a crime in Belize shall not be treated as a ‘first offender’ and shall not be eligible for community service order.
(5) While sentencing a deportee for a crime committed in Belize, a court shall receive as evidence a certificate of foreign criminal record without further proof and shall give it the same weight and effect as a local criminal record.
58 SCHEDULE 1 [Section 13] SUMMARY JURISDICTION (OFFENCES) ACT Form of Conviction of Idle and Disorderly Persons, Rogues and Vagabonds, and Incorrigible Rogues BELIZE, TO WIT:
BE IT REMEMBERED that on the day of in the year of Our Lord two thousand and at in the said Belize is convicted before me,
a magistrate in and for the Judicial District in Belize of being an idle and disorderly person (or a rogue and vagabond or an incorrigible rogue) within the true intent and meaning of section of the Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Act, Cap.
98, that is to say, for that the said on the day of two thousand and at in the said District (here state the offence proved before the magistrate) and for which said offence the said is ordered to be committed to the at for the space of (or in the case of an incorrigible rogue) to the until the sittings of the Supreme Court to be held at on the day of next, and until there dealt with.
GIVEN under my hand on the day and year and at the place first above written.
Magistrate, Judicial District.
Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) 59 SCHEDULE 2 SUMMARY JURISDICTION (OFFENCES) ACT Crimes Punishable as Summary Conviction Offences Without Consent of Accused Person [Section 50] No.
Crimes Section of the Criminal Code 1. Common Assault 44 2. Aggravated Assault 45 3. Abandonment of infant 60 4. Intentional Harm 79 5. Wounding 80 6. Grievous Harm 81 7. Use of deadly means of harm 83 8. Administering Noxious matter 84 9. Throwing, etc., at a train 88 10. Obstructing trains 89 11. Interference with signals, etc.
90 12. Abandonment likely to cause grievous harm 92 60 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) No.
Crimes Section of the Criminal Code 13. Negligent wound or grievous harm 94 14. Negligence by person in charge of dangerous things 95 15. Theft 146 16. Removal of articles from places open to the public 150 17. Taking motor vehicle or other conveyance without authority 151 18. Abstracting of electricity 152 19. Obtaining property by deception 153 20. Obtaining pecuniary advantage by deception 156 21. False accounting 162 22. Boundaries, documents and accounts 167 23. Removing goods to evade legal process 168 24. Handling stolen goods 171 25. Going equipped for stealing,
etc.
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Crimes Section of the Criminal Code 26. Possession of counterfeited or incomplete notes 195 27. Riot 226 28. Rioting with weapons 227 29. Unlawful assembly 229 30. Provocation of riot 230 31. Forcible entry 234 32. Forcible detainer 235 33. Provocation to fight 236 34. Threat of death or grievous harm 238 35. Written threats 239 36. Violence against judges,
witnesses, etc.
240 37. Disturbance of lawful assemblies 241 38. Obstructing public officers 242 39. Deceit of courts 260 40. Fictitious suits 261 41. Keeping away witnesses 262 62 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) No.
Crimes Section of the Criminal Code 42. Suppression of evidence on criminal trial 263 43. Hindrance of inquests 265 44. Neglect to hold inquests 266 45. Exciting prejudice as to a trial 268 46. Refusal to aid officers 273 47. Compounding crime 275 48. Refusal of office 281 49. False pretence of office 282 50. False declarations, etc., of office 283 51. Corruption, intimidation and personation 295 52. Unlawful voting 296 53. Selling unwholesome food 327 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) 63 SCHEDULE 3 SUMMARY JURISDICTION (OFFENCES) ACT Crimes Triable Summarily with Consent of Accused Person [Sections 51 and 52] No.
Crimes Enactments Sections 1. Forgery of dies or stamp Stamp Duties Act (CAP.64) 11 2. Post office employee opening or delaying delivery of letter, etc.
Post Office Act (CAP.228) 34 3. Theft by same of a letter 35 4. Theft by same out of letter 36 5. (a) Stealing or 37 unlawfully taking away packet, etc.
(b) Stopping mail with intent, etc.
6. Theft, etc. of bag, etc.
sent by Post Office packet 7. Handing stolen letter, etc.
8. (a) Fraudulent retainer,
etc.
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Crimes Enactments Sections
(b) Refusal to deliver,
etc.
9. Criminal diversion of letters from addressee 10. Accessories before the fact Debtors Act 11. (a) Obtaining credit by fraud (CAP.168) 7
(b) Making or causing to be made gift,
delivery, transfer or change of property Criminal Code (CAP.101)
(c) Concealing or 146 removing property 12. Theft 148 13. Burglary 14. Removal of articles from places open to the public 150 15. Taking motor vehicle or other conveyance without Authority 151 16. Abstracting of electricity 152 17. Obtaining property by deception 153 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) 65 No.
Crimes Enactments Sections 18. Obtaining pecuniary advantage by deception 156 19. False accounting 162 20. Handling stolen goods 171 21. Forgery of passport 178 22. Forgery of other documents 179 23. Uttering false documents (with reference only to the crime mentioned in section 179 of the Criminal Code) 180 24. Claiming upon a forged document with reference only to the crime mentioned in section 179 of the Criminal Code) 181 25. Possessing false documents (with reference only to the crime mentioned in section 179 of the Criminal Code) 182 26. Punishment for selling medals resembling current coin 189 27. Damaging current coin 190 66 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) No.
Crimes Enactments Sections 28. Uttering damaged coin 191 29. Forging hall-marks 199 30. Forging trade-marks 200 31. False statutory declarations and other false statements without oath 252 32. Corruption, oppression and extortion 284 33. False Certificates 285 34. Destruction, etc., of documents 286 35. Oppression by gaolers 287 36. Bribery of officers 289 37. Agreement for influencing officers 290 38. Disturbance of Elections 294 39. Falsification, etc., of votes, etc.
297 40. False pretence of impediment to marriage 319 41. Disturbing markets, etc.,
by false news 325 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) 67 No.
Crimes Enactments Sections 42. Any offence under the Bankruptcy Act, CAP.
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