Assizes Relief Act 1889
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1889 c. 12 |
Assizes Relief Act, 1889.
(52 & 53 Vict.) CHAPTER 12.
An Act to relieve the Courts of Assize from the Trial of Persons charged with Offences triable at Quarter Sessions.
[24th June 1889]
Be it 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 Trial of persons charged with offences triable at quarter sessions.
(1)1.—(1.) Whenever any person has been committed to gaol or admitted to bail by a justice or justices of the peace, in pursuance of section twenty-two or section twenty-five of the Act of the session of the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter forty-two, charged with an indictable offence triable at quarter sessions, the persons bound over to prosecute and give evidence shall be bound over to attend for that purpose at the next practicable court of quarter sessions having jurisdiction to try such person for such offence, unless such justice or justices for special reasons think fit otherwise to direct; and where the persons are so bound over, the person charged shall be tried at the said court of quarter sessions, and a court of oyer and terminer or general gaol delivery shall not be required to deliver such person from gaol unless the High Court of Justice shall by order direct that such person shall be indicted and tried at a court of oyer and terminer or general gaol delivery having jurisdiction to try him for such offence.
(2) (2.) If such direction is given by the High Court, the Court shall cause to be given to the persons so bound over as aforesaid notice in writing to attend at the court of oyer and terminer or general gaol delivery at the time and place mentioned in the notice, and the recognizance binding over such persons shall have effect as if the court, time, and place mentioned in the notice were substituted for those mentioned in the recognizance.
2 Notice by justices to gaoler.
2. Every justice of the peace by whom a person is committed to gaol to await his trial for any offence triable at quarter sessions shall, by endorsement on the commitment or other notice in writing, inform the governor of such gaol whether the persons bound over to prosecute and give evidence at such trial are bound over to attend at a court of...
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