Section 100Part 5 — Procedure for Committal of Accused for Trial before the Grand Court
Deposition of witness who is ill or about to leave the Islands
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If it is proved upon oath before any magistrate that any person is dangerously ill and unable to travel, or is about to leave the Islands for a period extending beyond the time when the accused, if committed for trial, would be tried, and that such person is able and willing to give material information as to any offence which the magistrate is not empowered to try summarily, and with which any person has been charged (whether the preliminary inquiry has or has not been held or is in progress but not after the accused has been discharged) the magistrate may take the deposition of such person at the place where such person is lying sick or, if such person is about to leave the Islands as aforesaid, in the court, in the manner prescribed by this Code, and shall, after taking it, sign it, adding to it by way of heading a statement of the reason for taking it, and of the day upon which and place at which it was taken, and of the names of the persons, if any, present at the taking thereof.