Larceny Act, 1916

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Jurisdiction of quarter sessions.

5 & 6 Vict. c. 38.

52 & 53 Vict. c. 12.

38.—(1) A court of quarter sessions—

(a) notwithstanding anything in the Quarter Sessions Act, 1842, shall in England have jurisdiction to try an indictment for burglary;

(b) shall not have jurisdiction to try an indictment for any offence against sections twenty, twenty-one, and twenty-two of this Act.

(2) A justice of the peace in England when committing for trial a person charged with burglary shall commit him for trial before a court of assize unless, owing to the absence of any circumstances which make the case a grave or difficult one, he thinks it expedient in the interest of justice to commit him for trial before a court of quarter sessions; and the Assizes Relief, Act, 1889, shall apply.