Inebriates Act 1899

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Inebriates Act, 1899,

(62 & 63 Vict.) CHAPTER 35.

An Act to amend the Inebriates Act, 1898.

[9th August 1899]

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:

S-1 Expenses of prosecution under

1 Expenses of prosecution under

1. The expenses of any prosecution on indictment under section two of the Inebriates Act, 1898, shall be payable as in cases of indictment for felony, and where any case under that section is dealt with summarily the expenses of the prosecution shall be payable in manner provided by section twenty-eight of the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879, or, in Ireland, by section fourteen of the Criminal Justice Act, 1855.

S-2 Power to deal summarily with offences under.

2 Power to deal summarily with offences under.

2. Where by any regulations made in pursuance of section six of the Inebriates Act, 1898, a breach of the regulations is made punishable by fine or imprisonment, the breach shall be an offence which may be prosecuted summarily.

S-3 Short title.

3 Short title.

3. This Act may be cited as theInebriates Act, 1899,and the Inebriates Acts, 1879 to 1898, and this Act may be cited together as the Inebriates Acts, 1879 to 1899.

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