PUBLIC SERVANTS LIABILITIES ORDINANCE, 1917

PUBLIC SERVANTS LIABILITIES ORDINANCE, 1917

No. 10 of 1917.

An Ordinance to protect certain puRic serrants from
legal proceedings in respect of certain liabilitiles.

[30th March, 1917.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Pubfic Servants
Liabilities Ordinance, 1917.

2. In this Ordinance,

(a) Action includes legal proceedings and process of
every description other than criminal and includes proceed-
ings in bankruptcy.

(b) Public servant moans any person holding any

permanent appointment the emoluments of which are wholly
or in part directly derived from the revenues of the Colony.

3.-(1) No action shall be maintained against a public
servant-

(a) upon any promise express or implied to repay money
paid or advanced to him or to another person at his request;

(b) upon any promise express or implied to be answerable
for the debt or default of another person; or





(c) upon any bond, bill of exchange, promissory note, or
other like instrument made, drawn, accepted, indorsed or
given by him.

(2) This section shall not apply to any public servant
whose substantive pay, at the date when the liability sought
to be enforced is contracted, exceeds two hundred dollars a
month, exclusive of any allowances.

(3) This section shall not apply to any liability contracted
before the commencement of this Ordinance.

(4) Nothing in this section contained shall affect the riglit
of the holder of any security to realize the same by sale or
foreclosure.

4. All proceedings and docuiiients in or incidental to an
action in contravention of this Ordinance shall be absolutely
null and void for all purposes, whetlier the Ordinance be
raised as a defence or not.

No. 11 of 1917, incorporated in No. 28 of 1914.

No. 12 of 1917, incorporated in No. 4 of 1897.

No. 13 of 1917, incorporated in No. 10 of 1899.

No. 14 of 1917, repealed by Law Revision Ordi-
nance, 1924.


no. 15 of 1917, incorporated in no. 25 of 1914


nance,1924.

No. 17 of 1917, incorporated in No. 12 of 1916.

nance,1924.

No. 19 of 1917, repealed by No. 23 of 1919.

No. 20 of 1917, incorporated Ph No. 27 of 1914.

No. 21 of 1917, incorporated in No. 6 of 1887.
[Originally No. 10 of 1917. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. Interpretation. Actions not to lie against public servants in certain cases. Proceedings in contravention of this Ordinance to be void.

[Originally No. 10 of 1917. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. Interpretation. Actions not to lie against public servants in certain cases. Proceedings in contravention of this Ordinance to be void.

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