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Recovery of penalties, &c. in Scotland.
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19. In Scotland the following provisions shall have effect in regard to the prosecution of offences, recovery of penalties, and making of orders under this Act:
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(1.) Every offence under this Act shall be prosecuted, every penalty recovered, and every order made at the instance of the Lord Advocate, or of the Procurator Fiscal of the sheriff court:
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(2.) The proceedings may be on indictment in the Court of Justiciary or in the sheriff court, or may be taken summarily in the sheriff court under the provisions of the Summary Procedure Act, 1864:
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27 & 28 Vict. c. 53.
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(3.) Every person found liable on conviction to pay any penalty under this Act shall be liable, in default of payment within a time to be fixed in the conviction, to be imprisoned for a term, to be also fixed therein, not exceeding two months, or until such penalty shall be sooner paid; and the conviction and warrant may be in the form of No. 3 of Schedule K. of the Summary Procedure Act, 1864:
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(4.) In Scotland all penalties imposed in pursuance of this Act shall be paid to the clerk of the court imposing them, and shall by him be accounted for and paid to the Queen’s and Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer, and be carried to the Consolidated Fund.
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