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Summary proceedings for offences under this Act, &c. 11 & 12 Vict. c. 43.
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51. Except as in this Act otherwise expressly provided, every offence under this Act may be prosecuted, and every penalty and forfeiture may be recovered and enforced, in manner provided by the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1848, subject to the following provisions :
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(1.) The court of summary jurisdiction, when hearing and determining an information or complaint, other than in a case where the offence charged is that of being found drunk in any highway or other public place, or any licensed premises, shall be constituted either of two or more justices of the peace in petty sessions sitting at a place appointed for holding petty sessions, or of a stipendiary magistrate, or some other officer for the time being empowered by law to do alone any act authorised to be done by more than one justice of the peace, and sitting alone or with others at some court or other place appointed for the administration of justice:
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Where the court of summary jurisdiction orders that a distress shall be made in default of payment of any penal sum exceeding five pounds, including under that expression costs actually adjudged in respect of an offence, the court may order that in default of the said sum being paid as directed, the person liable to pay the same shall be imprisoned for any term not exceeding the period specified in the following scale :
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For any sum exceeding five pounds but not exceeding ten pounds, three months:
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For any sum exceeding ten pounds but not exceeding thirty pounds, four months ;
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For any sum exceeding thirty pounds but not exceeding fifty pounds, six months;
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For any sum exceeding fifty pounds, one year :
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(3.) The description of any offence under this Act in the words of such Act, or in similar words, shall be sufficient in law :
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(4.) Any exception, exemption, proviso, excuse, or qualification, whether it does or does not accompany the description of the offence in this Act, may be proved by the defendant, but need not be specified or negatived in the information, and if so specified or negatived, no proof in relation to the matters so specified or negatived shall be required on the part of the informant or complainant; and] in all cases of summary proceedings under this Act, the defendant and his wife shall be competent to give evidence :
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(5.) All forfeitures shall be sold or otherwise disposed of in such manner as the court may direct, and the proceeds of such sale or disposal (if any) shall be applied in the like manner as penalties, but the court may direct that such proceeds may be applied in the first instance in paying the expenses of and incidental to any search and seizure which resulted in such forfeiture:
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(6.) Penalties and forfeitures under this Act shall not, for the purpose of any Act respecting the application of such penalties, or the costs, charges, and expenses attending proceedings for recovery of such penalties or of forfeitures, be deemed to be penalties or forfeitures under any Act relating to the Inland Revenue.
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Any officer appointed by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue may sue for any penalties under this Act, and when so sued for any penalties which may be recovered shall be applied in the manner in which excise penalties are for the time being applicable by law.
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11 & 12 Vict. c. 43.
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Where under this Act any sum for costs (other than costs upon a conviction or order of dismissal of an information) or for compensation, or both, is ordered or awarded to be paid by any person, the amount thereof shall be recovered in manner directed by the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1848, for the recovery of costs awarded upon the dismissal of an information or complaint.
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[1 Words in brackets rep. as to E., 47 & 48 Vict. c. 43. s. 4.] |
