181 Inquest Of Fires

• Author: Ralph Hone
• Pages: #4

CHAPTER 181.

INQUEST OF FIRES.

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE HOLDING OF INQUIRIES IN THE CASE OF FIRES.

[20th March 1896.1

1. This Act may be cited as The Inquest of Fires Act.

2. Whenever a fire may take place within the Colony an official inquiry shall be held as soon as possible thereafter by the officials named herein, as to the cause and origin thereof, and into all the circumstances connected therewith.

3. Such inquiry shall be held in New Providence by the Commissioner of Police or person performing the duties of that office; and at any Out Island by the commissioner of the district, or the person acting in such office in which such fire shall have taken place.

4. Any person authorised to hold an inquiry under this Act, shall, for that purpose, have the same powers as are now vested by law in a justice of the peace, in a proceeding relating to an offence over which such justice has the power to make a summary conviction.

5. It shall be the duty of each person holding an inquiry under this Act at the conclusion thereof to forward the evidence taken with his report...