VEXATIOUS ACTIONS

(1) It shall be lawful for the Attorney-General to apply to the Supreme Court or a Judge thereof for an order under this Ordinance, and if he satisfies such court or Judge that any person has habitually and persistently instituted vexatious civil legal proceedings without any reasonable ground for instituting such proceedings in any court, and whether against the same person or against different persons, such court or Judge may, after hearing such person or giving him an opportunity of being heard after assigning counsel in case such person is unable on account of poverty to retain counsel, order that no civil legal proceeding shall be instituted by that person in any court unless he obtains the leave of the Supreme Court or a Judge thereof, and satisfies the court or Judge that such legal proceeding is not an abuse of the process of the court, and that there is prima facie ground for such proceeding.

(2) A copy of such order shall be published in the Gazette.