Summary Jurisdiction (Ireland) Act, 1862

Prosecution of offences made punishable on summary conviction in Ireland.

2. Every offence by this Act and the said recited Acts, respectively, made punishable on summary conviction in Ireland, may be prosecuted before any justice or justices sitting in petty sessions in Ireland, or before any two justices sitting out of petty sessions, (when the offender shall be unable to procure bail for his appearance at petty sessions,) or before any divisional justice of the police district of Dublin Metropolis; and no stipendiary magistrate in Ireland, not being a justice of the police district in Dublin Metropolis, shall have any further or other jurisdiction than any other justice of the peace in respect of any such offence.