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FINES ACT (IRELAND) 1851, AMENDMENT ACT 1874
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CHAPTER LXXII.
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An Act to explain and amend the Fines Act (Ireland), 1851, and for other purposes relating thereto. [7th August 1874.]
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[Preamble recites 14 & 15 Vict. c. 90.]
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Short title.
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1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as “The Fines Act (Ireland), 1851, Amendment Act, 1874,” and the said Act and this Act may be cited together for all purposes as “The Fines Acts (Ireland), 1851–1874.”
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Meaning of section 10 of 14 & 15 Vict. c. 90. explained.
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2. The provisions of section ten of the Fines Act (Ireland), 1851, extend and authorise the assistant barrister, recorder, or chairman therein mentioned, whenever he orders that any recognizance which shall have been entered into by any person or persons as surety or sureties for any principal party shall be forfeited, in such order to state with respect not only to such principal party but also to such surety or sureties the amounts of such forfeiture, and to direct a warrant or warrants to issue to levy such amounts respectively from such surety or sureties in like manner as other penal sums are directed to be levied by the said Act.
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[S. 3 rep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39. (S.L.R.)]
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Application of penalties to town of Galway.
35 & 36 Vict. c. 94.
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4. Every penalty recovered in respect of offences committed within the limits of the Galway Town Improvement Act, 1853, against section twelve of the Licensing Act, 1872, as applied to Ireland, shall be applied as follows :—One half of such penalty shall go to the informer, and the remainder to the town commissioners, and if the town commissioners be the informers, they shall be entitled to the whole of said penalty.
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Mode of recovering penalties, &c. in certain cases.
14 & 15 Vict. c. 93.
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5. Where by any Act now in force or hereafter to be passed it is enacted that penalties, offences, or proceedings thereunder may be recovered, prosecuted, or taken in a summary manner, and no further provision with respect thereto is contained in such Act, then such penalties, offences, and proceedings shall be recoverable, may be prosecuted, or taken with respect to the police district of Dublin metropolis, subject and according to the provisions of any Act regulating the powers and duties of justices of the peace for such district, or of the police of such district; and with respect to other parts of Ireland, before a justice or justices of the peace sitting in petty Sessions, subject and according to the provisions of the Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851, and any Act amending the same.
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