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All fines, penalties, &c. recoverable in a summary way, and all trials for offences (not otherwise directed) shall be recovered at one of the police offices and had before one divisional justice.
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7. In all cases where any fines, penalties, or forfeitures are by any law in force or shall hereafter be limited and made payable to his Majesty, or to any description of person other than the informer or informers who shall sue for the same, or the party aggrieved, and which shall be recoverable in a summary way before a justice or justices of the peace, the same shall and may, within the police district of Dublin metropolis, be sued for and recovered at some one of the police offices within such district, before any one of the divisional justices at such office, and not before any justice or justices of the peace out of the said offices; and all trials and convictions for any offence against the said recited Act or this Act, in all cases not therein or herein otherwise particularly directed, and which offence shall be committed within the police district of Dublin metropolis, may be had and made respectively in the offices of the divisions in which any such offence shall respectively be committed, before any one of the said divisional justices in such divisions respectively; and the proceedings in such respective cases, by and before such one divisional justice, shall be as effectual to all intents and purposes, and shall have the same consequence and results as to fines, penalties, or forfeitures, or shares of fines, penalties, or forfeitures, and the approbation thereof, and the accounting for and paying the same into the hands of the receiver of the public offices, and in every other respect whatever, as if had before two divisional justices in manner directed by the said recited Act, or as if the jurisdiction herein given with respect to such cases to one divisional justice had been expressly so given in and by and had constituted part of the said recited Act; anything in the said recited Act to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.
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