Section 44Part 10 — Penalties and Legal Proceedings
Amends for frivolous informations
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Where a complaint or information of any offence (not being an offence relating to licences) is made or laid before a Judge and is not further prosecuted, or if any such complaint or information is further prosecuted, but it appears to the Judge by whom the case is heard that there was no sufficient ground for the making of the charge, the Judge shall have power to award such amends, not exceeding ten dollars, to be paid by the complainant or informant to the party complained or informed against for his loss of time and expenses in the matter, as to the Judge may seem meet; and every sum so awarded shall be recoverable as penalties are recoverable.