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Provision as to penalties.
30 & 31 Vict. c. 5.
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23. Notwithstanding the provisions in the Excise Acts relating to the recovery and application of Excise penalties, any penalty imposed by the Dog Licenses Act, 1867, or this part of this Act, may be either sued for and applied in the manner prescribed by such provisions, or recovered and enforced upon information of a police constable before a court of summary jurisdiction, subject in the latter case to the following provisions:
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(2.) The penalty, when recovered, shall, notwithstanding anything in the Acts relating to the metropolitan police courts, or any other Act, as to one half be paid to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, and applied in the manner in which Excise penalties are by law applicable, and as to the other half be paid and applied in England and Wales for the benefit of the superannuation fund of the police force to which the police constable who instituted the prosecution belonged, and in Scotland to the treasurer of the police assessment of the county or burgh to the police force of which such police constable belonged.
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