T-16 - Courts of Justice Act

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190. (Repealed).
R. S. 1964, c. 20, s. 199; 1969, c. 21, s. 35; 1990, c. 4, s. 891.
190. It shall not be necessary, in any conviction under any by-law of any municipal corporation in Québec, to set out the information, appearance or non-appearance of the defendant, or the evidence or by-law under which the conviction is had; but all such convictions may be in the following form:

“CANADA,
Province of Québec,
District of

To wit:
Be it remembered that on the .............. day of .............., 19.............., at .............. district of .............., A. B. is convicted before the undersigned, one of Her Majesty’s justices of the peace in and for the said district, for that the said A. B. (stating the offence and the time and place, and when and where committed), contrary to a certain by-law of the municipality of .............., in the said district of .............., passed on the .............. day of .............., 19.............. and intituled: (reciting the title of by-law); and I adjudge the said A. B., for his offence, to forfeit and pay the sum of .............. dollars, to be paid and applied according to law, and also to pay to C. D., the complainant, the sum of .............., for his costs in this behalf.
And, if the said several sums be not paid forthwith, (or on or before the .............. day of .............., as the case may be,) I order that the same be levied by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the said A. B.; and, in default of sufficient distress, I adjudge the said A. B. to be imprisoned in the house of detention of the said district of .............., for the space of .............. days, unless the said several sums, and all costs and charges of conveying the said A. B. to such house of detention shall be sooner paid.
Given under my hand, on the .............. day of .............., 19.............., at .............., in the said district.

J. M.,
J. P.”
R. S. 1964, c. 20, s. 199; 1969, c. 21, s. 35.