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As to jurisdiction of justices under 17 & 18 Vict. c. 103.
9 Geo. 4. c. 82.
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30. Wherever the Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854, or any Local Act incorporating the said Act in whole or in part, is in force in any town or place, any person empowered for the purposes of the said Act or of such local Act to act as a justice of the peace within the boundaries of such town or place shall, notwithstanding anything in the principal Act to the contrary, have all and the same jurisdiction, power, and authority to hear and determine charges for offences committed within the boundaries of such town or place against section twelve of the principal Act as any justice of the peace having jurisdiction in that behalf, and may for such purpose sit alone or, in his own court, together with any justice or justices of the peace, according as the offence against the said section may be tried by one or by two or more justices, or any justice or justices in petty sessions of the peace.
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The penalty imposed by such justice or justices, or by the justices in petty sessions in every such town or place as aforesaid, and in every town in which the Lighting of Towns (Ireland) Act, 1828, is in force for any such offence committed within the boundaries of such town or place, shall be enforced as penalties are by the Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854, or such Local Act, or the Lighting of Towns (Ireland) Act, 1828, respectively directed to be enforced, and shall be applied in manner prescribed by the Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854, for the purposes of such of the said Acts as is in force within such town or place.
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