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50 Power to amend where there is a defect or error

(1)On the hearing of a proceeding the Court must not allow an objection to a warrant on account of any defect or error in it in substance or in form or for any variance between it and the evidence presented in the proceeding but the Court may amend the warrant to correct the defect or error.

S. 50(1) amended by No. 7/2009 s. 427(1)(e) (as amended by No. 68/2009 s. 54(m)).

(2)An order must not be set aside or quashed only because of a defect or error in form but the Court may amend the order to correct the defect or error.

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