Cap. 234 ст. 317Where criminal proceedings are taken following a shipping casualty. 

(1) Where in connection with any shipping casualty criminal proceedings are taken against any person before the Court of Magistrates as a court of criminal inquiry, the certificated duplicate of the report on the formal investigation into the shipping casualty, with the evidence taken at such investigation, shall be filed in the record of the proceedings, and the report shall have the same effect as the referred to in the Criminal Code. procès-verbal

(2) In any such case it shall not be necessary to re-examine any of the witnesses heard at the investigation whose depositions are filed in the record of the criminal proceedings as aforesaid, unless such re-examination is necessary to establish circumstances which do not result from those depositions or is requested by the defendant.

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