Summary Jurisdiction (Ireland) Act, 1851

In what cases appeals shall be permitted.

Appeals to be made to next quarter sessions of division, or to recorder’s next sessions.

Quarter sessions, &c. may decide appeal, subject to the provisions of 14 & 15 Vict. c. 93. as to form, notices, &c.

23. In any case where an order shall be made under the provisions of this Act for the payment of any penal or other sum exceeding twenty shillings, or for any term of imprisonment exceeding one month, or for doing anything at a greater expence than twenty shillings, (but in no other case,) either party, (whether he shall be the complainant or defendant,) in cases of a civil nature, or the person against whom any such order shall have been made in other cases, shall be entitled to appeal to the next quarter sessions to be held in the same division of the county when the order shall be made by any justice or justices in any petty sessions district, or to the recorder at his next sessions when the order shall be made by the said divisional justices in the police district of the Dublin Metropolis, or to the recorder of any corporate or borough town when the order shall be made by any justice or justices in such corporate or borough town (unless when any such sessions shall commence within seven days from the elate of any such order, in which case, if the appellant sees fit, the appeal may be made to the next succeeding sessions to be held for such division or town); and it shall be lawful for such court of quarter sessions or recorder, as the case may be, to decide such appeal, if made in such form and manner and with such notices as are required by the said Petty Sessions Act as to appeals against orders made by justices at petty sessions; and all the provisions of the said Petty Sessions Act as to making appeals, and as to executing the orders made on appeal or the oiigmal orders where the appeals shall not be duly prosecuted, shall also apply to any appeal or like order to be made under the provisions of this Act.