Fines Act (Ireland) 1851, Amendment Act, 1874

Mode of recovering penalties, &c. in certain cases.

14 & 15 Vict. c. 93.

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.