Post Office Act, 1908

Summary proceedings.

14 & 15 Vict. c. 93.

71.(1) All offences under this Act which are punishable on summary conviction may be prosecuted, and all fines or forfeitures under this Act which are recoverable on summary conviction may be recovered, as follows (that is to say):—

(a) In the United Kingdom in manner provided by the Summary Jurisdiction Acts; and

(b) In the Isle of Man before a high bailiff or two justices of the peace at the instance of an officer of the Post Office or of a constable in accordance with the law for the time being in force for regulating the exercise of summary jurisdiction by such bailiffs or justices; and

(c) Elsewhere before the court and in the manner provided by law, and, if no provision is otherwise made by law, then at the instance of any officer of the Post Office before the court, and in the manner, before and in which the like offences and fines can be prosecuted and recovered.

(2) If any person convicted on summary conviction is aggrieved by the conviction, he may appeal against the conviction, in England to a court of quarter sessions in accordance with the provisions of the Summary Jurisdiction Acts, and in Scotland and Ireland in manner provided by those Acts.

(3) If any person aids, abets, counsels, or procures the commission of any offence which is by this Act punishable on summary conviction, he shall, on summary conviction within the Dublin metropolitan police district, be liable to the same forfeiture and punishment as the principal offender.

(4) Where any sum is, under this Act, recoverable summarily as a civil debt, that sum shall be recovered in manner provided by the Summary Jurisdiction Acts, and any order for the recovery of such a sum may be enforced in Ireland in like manner as an order in a case of a civil nature under the Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851.