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Summary proceedings for offences in Scotland.
27 & 28 Vict. c. 53.
20 Geo. 2. c. 43.
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67. In Scotland the following provisions shall have effect:
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(1) The court of summary jurisdiction when hearing and determining an information or complaint shall be the sheriff:
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(2) All jurisdictions powers and authorities necessary for the court of summary jurisdiction under this Act are hereby conferred on that court:
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(3) Every person found liable under this Act by a court of summary jurisdiction in any fine, or to pay any money or costs by this Act directed to be recovered as fines, shall be liable in default of immediate payment to be imprisoned for a term not exceeding three months, and the conviction and warrant may be in the form of No. 3 of Schedule K. of the Summary Procedure Act, 1864[1]
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(4) Any fine exceeding fifty pounds shall be recovered and enforced in the same manner in which any penalty due to Her Majesty under any Act of Parliament may be recovered and enforced:
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(5) An appeal shall not lie from any conviction made by a sheriff, save to the next circuit court, or where there are no circuit courts, to the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh, in the manner prescribed by such of the provisions of the Heritable Jurisdiction (Scotland) Act, 1746, and any Acts amending the same, as relate to appeals in matters criminal, and by and under the rules limitations conditions and restrictions contained in the said provisions.
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[1 This Act is rep. by 8 Edw. 7. c. 65, s. 3; see now Sched. E. of that Act.] |
