Inebriates Act, 1899

INEBRIATES ACT 1899

CHAPTER XXXV

An Act to amend the Inebriates Act, 1898. [9th August 1899.]

Expenses of prosecution under

61 & 62 Vict. c. 60, s. 2.

42 & 43 Vict. c. 49.

18 & 19 Vict. c. 126.

1. The expenses of any prosecution on indictment under section two of the Inebriates Act, 1898, shall be payable as in cases of indictment for felony,[1] and where any case under that section is dealt with summarily the expenses of the prosecution shall be payable in manner provided by section twenty-eight of the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879, or, in Ireland, by section fourteen of the Criminal Justice Act, 1855.

Power to deal summarily with offences under 61 & 62 Vict. c. 60. s. 6.

2. Where by any regulations made in pursuance of section six of the Inebriates Act, 1898, a breach of the regulations is made punishable by fine or imprisonment, the breach shall be an offence which may be prosecuted summarily.

Short title.

3. This Act may be cited as the Inebriates Act, 1899, and the Inebriates Acts, 1879 to 1898, and this Act may be cited together as the Inebriates Acts, 1879 to 1899.

[1 But see 8 Edw. 7. c. 15, s. 9 (6).]