TONGA

MAGISTRATE'S COURT (AMENDMENT) ACT 2016
Act 10 of 2016

Arrangement of Sections 

Section 

1	Short title and Interpretation 
2	Section 8 amended 

AN ACT TO AMEND THE MAGISTRATES COURT ACT (CAP. 11) TO
PROVIDE FOR THE EXPRESS POWER FOR A MAGISTRATE TO AWARD COSTS IN PRIVATE PROSECUTIONS 

I assent, 
TUPOU VI, 
24th November 2016. 

BE IT ENACTED by the King and Legislative Assembly of Tonga in the Legislature of the Kingdom as follows: 

1	Short title and Interpretation 

(1)	This Act may be cited as the Magistrate’s Court (Amendment) Act 2016. 

(2)	In this Act, the Magistrate’s Court Act (Cap. 11) as amended, shall be referred to as the “Principal Act”. 

2	Section 8 amended 
Section 8 of the Principal Act is amended by – 

(a)	deleting the full stop at the end of the proviso to paragraph (m) and replacing it with “; and”; and 

(b)	inserting the following new paragraph (n) in the appropriate place – “(n) to award costs in the appropriate circumstances.”. 

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Passed by the Legislative Assembly this 27th day of October 2016.