Criminal Procedure Act, 2024
Being an Act to repeal and replace the Criminal Procedure Act, 1965, to provide for new procedures relating to summary trials, committal proceedings, trials on indictment, alternative sentences, and to provide for other related matters.
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Criminal Procedure Act, 2024 is a law of Sierra Leone from 2024. It is cited as No. 8 of 2024. It sits with the justice statutes. Search it by that name, by justice, or by the year 2024.
The long title says the Act was passed to repeal and replace the Criminal Procedure Act, 1965, to provide for new procedures relating to summary trials, , trials on , alternative sentences, and to provide for other related matters.
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- Being an Act to repeal and replace the Criminal Procedure Act, 1965, to provide for new procedures relating to summary trials, committal proceedings, trials on indictment, alternative sentences, and to provide for other related matters.
From the text of the act
- Long title
- Being an Act to repeal and replace the Criminal Procedure Act, 1965, to provide for new procedures relating to summary trials, committal proceedings, trials on indictment, alternative sentences, and to provide for other related matters.
- Number
- No. 8 of 2024
- Signed (assent)
- 11 October 2024
The Act is arranged in 8 Parts: Part 1 – Preliminary; Part 2 – General Provisions Arrest Generally; Part 3 – Summary Trials; Part 4 – Committal Proceedings; Part 5 – Indictments and Trials in the High Court; Part 6 – Special Trials-trial of Corporations or Companies; Part 7 – Execution of Sentences-alternative Sentences; Part 8 – Miscellaneous.
- Part 1 – Preliminary
- Part 2 – General Provisions Arrest Generally
- Part 3 – Summary Trials
- Part 4 – Committal Proceedings
- Part 5 – Indictments and Trials in the High Court
- Part 6 – Special Trials-trial of Corporations or Companies
- Part 7 – Execution of Sentences-alternative Sentences
- Part 8 – Miscellaneous
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Criminal Procedure Act, 2024 (No. 8 of 2024) (Lanbuk, 12 October 2026) <https://www.lanbuk.com/laws/criminal-procedure-act-2024> accessed 31 October 2026