Summary Jurisdiction (Ireland) Amendment Act 1871

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: 1871 c. 76
• Year: 1871

Summary Jurisdiction (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1871.

(34 & 35 Vict.) CHAP. 76.

An Act to amend the law relating to the Recovery of Small Debts and to Summary Jurisdiction in Ireland.

[14th August 1871]

Whereas by the Act passed in the twenty-second year of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter fourteen, intituled ‘An ^Actfor the Abolition of Manor Courts and the better Recovery of Small Debts in Ireland,’ it is enacted that no defendant shall be liable to be sued or proceeded against at petty sessions under the said Act, or obliged to appear in any cause to be heard and determined at any petty sessions held in any other part of the country than at the petty sessions held within the county, and within the petty sessions district of such county in which the defendant or defendants reside or resides: Provided always, that if any defendant or defendants shall have or occupy any house, warehouse, counting-house, shop, factory, or office, for the sale of goods, or for carrying on any business within the district of such petty sessions district, he shall be deemed to have a residence within such petty sessions district:

And whereas it is expedient to amend the said provisions and to make other provisions instead thereof:

And whereas it is expedient to amend the law relating to certain offences and matters within the police district of Dublin Metropolis:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1 Short title.

1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the ‘Summary Jurisdiction (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1871.’

2 Extent of Act.

2. This Act shall apply to Ireland only.

3 Defendant may be proceeded against at petty sessions within or without the county in which he resides.

3. Any defendant shall be liable to be sued or proceeded against at petty sessions under the said Act of the twenty-second Victoria, chapter fourteen, and be obliged to appear in any cause to be heard and determined at any petty sessions within the petty sessions district in which the defendant or defendants resides or reside, whether such petty sessions be held within or without the county in which the defendant or defendants resides or reside, anything in the said Act to the contrary notwithstanding.

4 Powers of divisional justices of police district of Dublin Metropolis.

4. The several divisional justices of the police district of Dublin Metropolis shall be deemed to have and possess, and shall have and may exercise all and the same powers or preserving the public peace within the city of Dublin as are elsewhere vested in and may be exercised by justices of the peace within the limits of their...