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Trials, &c. for offences, where to be held.
Recovery and application of penalties.
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[118.1
] And . . . that in all cases not herein otherwise particularly directed, all trials and convictions for any offences or offence against this Act which shall be committed within the police district of Dublin metropolis shall be had and made respectively in the offices of the divisions in which they shall respectively be committed, before not less than two of the said divisional justices in said divisions respectively; and where any such offence shall be committed without the said district the trial and conviction for such offence shall be had and made before any justice of the peace; and in every of the said cases, whether the offence shall be committed within or without the said police district, the fines, penalties, and forfeitures thereon respectively payable shall, if not forthwith paid, be levied by distress and sale of the offender’s goods, by warrant under the hands and seals of the said justices or justice before whom such conviction shall be made respectively; and all fines, penalties, and forfeitures payable under this Act shall in all cases not otherwise particularly directed, where the same shall be at the prosecution of an informer, be paid, after deducting the necessary costs of recovering the same, in whatever mode the same shall be, one moiety to the receiver of the said publick offices, and the other moiety to the informer or person who shall sue for the same; and that all fees, and also all fines, penalties, and forfeitures payable under this Act, other than such as last before mentioned, shall be paid to the said receiver; and all sums so paid to the said receiver shall go to and constitute part of the fund applicable to the support and establishment of the police of the said police district of Dublin metropolis.
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