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Informants or Complainants not disqualified from being Witnesses.
Respondents also competent.
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LXV. Upon the Trial or Hearing of any Information or Complaint exhibited or made under any of the Provisions of this Act, or under any Rule, Order, or Byelaw made in pursuance thereof, any Informant or Complainant or other Person shall be deemed and is hereby declared to be a competent Witness, notwithstanding that he may be entitled to any Part of any pecuniary Penalty or to any pecuniary Compensation or Reward on the Conviction of any Offender upon any such Information or Complaint, or liable to any Police Rate or Tax; provided nevertheless, that it shall also be lawful to and for the Divisional Justice by and before whom any Information or Complaint is to be determined, if in his Discretion he shall think fit so to do, to admit the Respondent or Party accused in any such Case to be examined upon Oath, and give Evidence touching the said Complaint and the Matters relating thereto.
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