Judicial Times) (Amendment) Order, 2020

L.N. 84 of 2020

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT

(CAP. 465)

Epidemics and Infectious Disease (Suspension of Legal and

Judicial Times) (Amendment) Order, 2020

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 27(c) of the

Public Health Act, the Superintendent of Public Health has made the

following order:-

(1) The title of this order is the Epidemics and Infectious

Disease (Suspension of Legal and Judicial Times) (Amendment)

Order, 2020 and this order shall be read and construed as one with the

Epidemics and Infectious Disease (Suspension of Legal and Judicial

Times) Order, hereinafter referred to as "the principal order".

(2) This order shall be deemed to have come into force on the

16 th March, 2020.

Sub-article (1) of article 3 of the principal order shall be

substituted by the following

"(1) When the Superintendent orders of the closure of all

courts or of any court for the purpose of guarding against and, or

controlling dangerous epidemics or infectious disease, such

order shall suspend the running of any legal and judicial times

and of any other time limits including peremptory periods

applicable to proceedings or other procedures before the said

courts. This suspension shall also apply to prescription in

criminal and civil matters. The suspension shall last until seven

(7) days following the repeal of any such order by the

Superintendent. Without prejudice to the generality of the

foregoing, such suspension shall mean that if the last day of any

legal or judicial time or other time limit expires during the time

when an order provided for in this regulation is in force, the

running of the times shall be suspended until seven (7) days after

the day when the Superintendent of Public Health repeals the

order for the closure of any court by notice in the Gazette.".

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