P-15 - Summary Convictions Act

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1977-12-31

12

(Section 43)

Warrant of Commitment of a Witness for Refusing to be Sworn or
to Give Evidence

Canada,
Province of Québec,
District of

To all or any of the constables and other peace officers in the
said district, and to the keeper of the house of detention at
 .............................................................,
in the said district ..........................................

  Whereas A. B. was lately charged before ....................,
a justice of the peace in and for the said district of ........
 .............................................................,
for that (etc., as in the summons); and it having been made to
appear to (me) upon oath that E. F. of ........................
was likely to give material evidence for the prosecution, (or
for the defence), I duly issued my summons to the said E. F.,
requiring him to be and appear before me on .........., at ....
 ............, or before such other justice or justices of the
peace for the said district as shall then be there, to testify
what he knows concerning the said charge so made against the
said A. B. as aforesaid; and the said E. F. now appearing
before (me) (or being brought before (me) by virtue of a
warrant in that behalf), to testify as aforesaid, and being
required to make oath or affirmation as a witness in that
behalf, now refuses so to do (or being duly sworn as a witness
now refuses to answer certain questions concerning the premises
which are new here put to him; and more particularly the
following ................ or refuses or neglects to produce
certain documents which he is required to produce, to wit
 ...................), without offering any just excuse for
such refusal:
  These are therefore to command you to take the said E. F. and
to convey him to the house of detention at ...................,
in the district aforesaid, and there to deliver him to the
keeper thereof, together with this precept: And I do hereby
command you, the said keeper of the said house of detention, to
receive the said E. F. into your custody in the said house of
detention, and there keep him for the space of ................
 .......... days, for the said contempt, unless in the meantime
he consents to be examined, and to answer concerning the
premises; and for your so doing, this shall be your sufficient
warrant.
  Given under my hand, this ......... day of .................,
in the year one thousand nine hundred and ....................,
at ............................, in the district aforesaid.

                                                  (Signature)

                   Justice of the Peace (or as the case may be)
                           for the district of ................    

R. S. 1964, c. 35, form 14; 1969, c. 21, s. 35.