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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 74

Provisions as to procedure in prosecutions

Provisions as to procedure in prosecutions.

V. (1.) Where any person is charged with an offence against these Acts such charge shall be heard, and all penalties imposed by this Act shall be recovered, in a summary way before a Stipendiary Magistrate.

(2.) The following provisions shall have effect with reference to proceedings before the Court for offences and penalties under these Acts :—
(a.)The information shall be laid within one month after the commission of the offence;
(b.)It shall be sufficient to allege that a shop or office is a shop or office within the meaning of these Acts without more;
(c.)It shall be sufficient to state the name of the ostensible shopkeeper or office manager, or the title of the firm, company, or association by which the shopkeeper or office manager is usually known;
(d.)A conviction or order made in any matter arising under these Acts, either originally or on appeal, shall not be quashed for want of form; and
(e.)The Inspector and every other person who may be dissatisfied with the judgment of the Court on any summary proceedings under these Acts may appeal to the Supreme Court or to a District Court in the manner provided by " The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882."

W. Every person who commits any breach of any provision of these Acts for which no specific penalty is provided is liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

"The Shops and Shop-assistants Act, 1892," is hereby repealed.

Samuel Costall, Government Printer, Wellington.—1896