Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851

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Local jurisdiction of justices and constabulary.

7. The powers of justices and others to act in and for different localities shall be subject to the following provisions:

1. A justice for any county may act as such in all matters arising within such county, although he may at the time happen to be in an adjoining county, provided he shall be also a justice for such adjoining county:

2. A justice for any county may in like manner act as such in all matters arising within such county, although he may at the time happen to be in any city, town, or place, being a county of itself, situate within or adjoining to such first-mentioned county, whether he shall be a justice of such city, town, or place, or not; but nothing herein contained shall extend to empower any justice for any county, not being also justice for any such city, town, or place as aforesaid, or any person acting under him, to act or intermeddle in any matters arising within any such city, town, or place:

3. The inspector general, or either of the deputy inspectors general of constabulary, being a justice of any county, may act in all matters arising within such county, wherever he may happen to be at the time:

4. Whenever any townland belonging to one county shall be included in any petty sessions district of the adjoining county under the provisions of this Act, any justice having jurisdiction in such petty sessions district shall have the like jurisdiction in such townland, although lie may not be a justice of the county to which such town-land belongs; and any committal to any gaol or bridewell of such last-mentioned county, or any other magisterial act done by any such justice, in any case in which the offence or cause of complaint shall have arisen in such townland, shall have the like force and effect as if such justice was also a justice of such last-mentioned county:

And all constables or other persons apprehending any person whom they lawfully may and ought to apprehend by virtue of their office or otherwise in any such county or place as aforesaid, may lawfully convey such person before any justice for such county or place whilst such justice shall be in such adjoining county or place as aforesaid; and such constables or other persons are hereby authorized and required in all such cases to act in all things as if such justice were within the county or place for which he shall so act.