Fines Act (Ireland) 1851

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Addressing warrants.

Addressing and executing warrants issued to constabulary or Dublin police.

14 & 15 Vict.c.93.

4. The manner in which warrants issued to the constabulary or Dublin metropolitan police for the levy of any penal sums under this Act shall be addressed shall be subject to the following provisions:

1. All such warrants for the levy of any such penal sums as aforesaid (not being issues) ordered to be levied by any of the superior or other courts within the police district of Dublin Metropolis, (other than the divisional police offices,) shall be addressed to the Commissioners of Metropolitan Police:

2. All such warrants issued from the said divisional police offices shall be addressed to the office sergeant, or such other member of the said police force as the said commissioners shall appoint for that purpose:

3. All such warrants issued from any court in Ireland, not being within the police district of Dublin Metropolis, shall be addressed to the sub-inspector of constabulary who shall act for the place in which such court shall be situated:

4. All such warrants issued by any justice or justices out of quarter sessions shall be addressed as required by the said Petty Sessions Act:

And the several provisions of the said Petty Sessions Act as to the certifying, indorsing, executing, or returning any warrant issued by a justice at petty sessions, and as to the selling of any distress or otherwise acting thereunder, shall also apply to any like warrant issued by any court officer, or divisional justice under the provisions of this Act, and to the selling of any distress or otherwise acting thereunder; and in the application of the said provisions of the said Petty Sessions Act to any such warrants issued within the said police district of Dublin Metropolis, whatever may be done by any head or other constable in executing any warrant addressed to any sub-inspector shall and may be done in any like case by any member of the said police force (to be named by the said commissioners or divisional justices) in executing any such warrant, addressed either to the said commissioners or to any other member of the said police force; and whatever may be done by any sub-inspector in certifying any warrant to the inspector general of constabulary may be done by the office sergeant or other member of the said police force to whom such warrant shall be addressed, in certifying the same to the said commissioners; and whatever may be done by the said inspector general, or by either of the deputy inspectors general of constabulary, in indorsing any warrant certified by any sub-inspector, may be done by the said inspector or deputy inspector general in indorsing any warrant which shall be so certified to the said commissioners, or which shall be addressed to the said commissioners in the first instance; provided that such warrant shall have been first indorsed by one of the said commissioners, and then transmitted by them to the said inspector general.