Fines Act (Ireland), 1851, Amendment Act 1874
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1874 c. 72 |
| Year | 1874 |
Fines Act (Ireland), 1851, Amendment Act, 1874
(37 & 38 Vict.) CHAPTER 72.
An Act to explain and amend the Fines Act (Ireland), 1851, and for other purposes relating thereto.
[7th August 1874]
W HEREAS by section ten of the Fines Act (Ireland), 1851, provisions were made for the estreat of recognizances, and doubts have arisen as to whether the said provisions extend to sureties as well as to principal parties, and it is expedient to remove the said doubts:
And whereas quarterly and monthly returns of proceedings in petty sessions, and of the appropriation of fees, fines, and penalties, are now by law required to be made by clerks of petty sessions in Ireland, and by reason of such monthly returns such quarterly returns are unnecessary, and it is expedient that the same should cease to be made:
And whereas it is expedient to make provision for the recovery of penalties and with respect to offences in certain cases:
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 theFines 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.’
2 Meaning of section 10 of Fines Act \(Ireland), 1851, explained.
2. It is hereby declared that 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.
3 Repeal of 6 & 7 W. 4. c. 34. s. 4.
3. From and after the passing of this Act section four of the Act passed in the session of Parliament held in the sixth and seventh years of the reign of His late Majesty William the Fourth, chapter thirty-four...
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