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Extension of powers to deal with cases summarily.
62 & 63 Vict. c. 22.
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15.—(1) “Twenty pounds” shall be substituted for “forty shillings” wherever those words occur in the second column of the First Schedule to the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879, or in the second column of the Schedule to the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1899, in which columns are set forth the indictable offences for which an adult may, with his consent, be dealt with summarily.
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In section twelve of the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879, after the words “not exceeding twenty pounds” there shall be inserted the following words “or, if the value of the property which was the subject of the offence, in the opinion of the court before which the charge is brought, exceeds forty shillings, to be imprisoned with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding six months or to pay a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.”
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(3) Where a child is charged before a court of summary jurisdiction with a felony, and the court, in pursuance of the power conferred by section ten of the same Act, as amended by any subsequent enactment, deals with the case summarily, the court may, notwithstanding anything in that section, inflict a fine not exceeding forty shillings as a punishment.
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