ACT

Supplement to the Sierra Leone Gazette Vol. CXXXVII, No. 13

dated 23rd March, 2006

Signed this 15 th day of March, 2006

ALHAJI AHMAD TEJAN KABBAH,

President.

The Courts (Amendment) Act, 2006.

Being an Act to amend the Courts Act, 1965.

[23rd March, 2006]

Enacted by the President and Members of Parliament in this present Parliament assembled.

Section 7 of the Courts Act, 1965 is amended by the repeal and replacement of subsection (1) thereof by the following:-

7. (1) In addition to any civil jurisdiction which may be conferred upon Magistrates' Courts by any other enactment, every such Court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine any cause or matter other than an action founded upon libel, slander, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, seduction or breach of promise of marriage which may be lawfully brought before it and wherein the claim, debt, duty or matter in dispute does not exceed five million leones in value whether on balance of account or otherwise".

Passed in Parliament this 9th day of February, in the year of our Lord two thousand and six.

J. A. CARPENTER, Clerk of Parliament.

This Printed Impression has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed Parliament and found by me to be a true and correct printed copy of the said Bill.

J. A. CARPENTER, Clerk of Parliament.

Printed and Published by the Government Printing Department, Sierra Leone. Gazette No. 13 of 23rd March, 2006.