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Crime Control and Criminal Justice BELIZE: CRIME CONTROL AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2020 ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS 1.

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Amendment of section 16.

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24 of 2020 I assent, (SIR COLVILLE N. YOUNG) Governor-General 25th August, 2020 AN ACT to amend the Crime Control and Criminal Justice Act, Chapter 102 of the Substantive Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2011; to expand the offences for which a Magistrate shall not grant bail; and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

(Gazetted 29th August, 2020.)


BE IT ENACTED, by and with the advice and consent of the House of Representatives and Senate of Belize and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1.

This Act may be cited as the Short title.

CRIME CONTROL AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2020, 220 CAP.

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19 of 2014.

6 of 2018.

17 of 2018.

Amendment of section 16.

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24 and shall be read and construed as one with the Crime Control and Criminal Justice Act, which, as amended, is hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.

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The principal Act is amended in section 16(2)– (a) in paragraph (k), by deleting the full stop and substituting a semi-colon; and (b) by inserting after paragraph (k), the following new paragraphs– “(l) the offence of entering Belize elsewhere than at an approved port or place of entry under section 24 of the Immigration Act; (m) the offences under section 112 (2) (b) or (c) of the Customs Regulation Act.”.

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