| [38 & 39 VICT.] Conspiracy, and Protection of
Property. |
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| ing twenty pounds, or to be imprisoned for a term not
exceeding three months, with or without hard labour. |
A.D.1875 |
| 6. Where a person is accused before a court
of summary jurisdiction of any offence made punishable by the Act,
the accused may, on appearing before the court of summary jurisdiction,
declare that he objects to being tried for such offence by a court
of summary jurisdiction, and thereupon the court of summary jurisdiction
may deal with the case in all respects as if the accused were charged
with an indictable offence and not an offence punishable on summary
conviction, and the offence may be prosecuted on indictment accordingly. |
Power for offender under this Act to be tried on indictment and
not by court of summary jurisdiction. |
Miscellaneous. |
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| 7. Where a master, being legally liable
to provide for his servant or apprentice necessary food, clothing,
medical aid, or lodging, wilfully and without lawful excuse refuses
or neglects to provide the same, whereby the health of the servant
or apprentice is or is likely to be seriously or permanently injured,
he shall on summary conviction be liable either to pay a penalty not
exceeding six months, with or without had labour. |
Penalty for neglect by master to provide food, clothing, &c.
for servant or apprentice. |
| 8. Every person who, with a view to compel any other
person to abstain from doing or to do any act which such other person
has a legal right to do or abstain from doing, shall use violence
to any person or any property, or shall, with the view aforesaid,
threaten or intimidate any person in such manner as would justify
a justice of the peace in binding over the person so threatening or
intimidating to keep the peace, on complaint made to him, and every
person who, with a view seriously to annoy or intimidate any other
person, shall persistently follow such other person about or hide
any property owned or used by such other person, or deprive him of
or hinder him in the use thereof, or watch or beset the place where
such other person resides or is, or the approach to such place, or
with one or more persons follow such person in a disorderly manner
in or through any street or road, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding
twenty pounds, or to imprisonment with or without had labour for a
term not exceeding three months. |
Penalty for intimidation or annoyance by violence or
otherwise. |
Legal Proceedings. |
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| 9. Every offence under this Act which is
made punishable on conviction by a court of summary jurisdiction or
on summary conviction, and every penalty under this Act recoverable
on summary |
Proceedings before court of summary jurisdiction. |
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| [handwritten] Leave out Clause 6. |
| (23. Leave out from (doing) to the end of the Clause
and insert (" wrongfully and without legal authority, - |
| 1. Uses violence to or intimidates such other person
or his wife or children, or injures his property; or, |
| 2. Persistently follows such other person about from
place to place; or, |
| 3. Hides any tools, clothes, or other property owned
or used by such other person, or deprives him of or hinders him in
the use thereof; or, |
| 4. Watches or besets the house or other place where
such other person resides, or works, or carries on business, or happens
to be, or the approach to such house or place; or, |
| 5. Follows such other person with two or more other
persons in a disorderly manner in or through any street or road, |
| shall, on conviction thereof by a court of summary jurisdiction,
or an indictment as herein-after mentioned, be liable either to pay
a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, or to be imprisoned for a term
not exceeding three months, with or without hard labour. |
| Attending at or near the house or place where a person
resides, or works, or carries on business, or happens to be, or the
approach to such house or place, in order merely to obtain or communicate
information, ( and not with a view
to intimidate or to deter by serious annoyance such person from doing
or abstaining from doing that which he has a legal right to do or
abstain from doing ,) shall not be deemed a watching
or besetting within the meaning of this section.)- |
[handwritten in margin]
L22 leave out from (information, to (shall) L24 |
| [handwritten] and also insert Clause (A) |
| (A) 8. Where
in any Act relating to employers or workmen a pecuniary penalty is
imposed in respect of any offence under such Act, and no power is
given to reduce such penalty, the justices or court having jurisdiction
in respect of such offence may, if they think it just so to do, impose
by way of penalty in respect of such offence any sum not less than
one fourth of the penalty imposed by such Act. |
Reduction of penalties. |
| [handwritten] after line 37 insert Clause (B) |
| Power for offender under this Act to be tried on indictment
and not by court of summary jurisdiction. |
(B) 9. Where
a person is accused before a court of summary jurisdiction of any
offence made punishable by this Act, and for which a penalty
not exceeding twenty pounds, or imprisonment, is imposed, the
accused may, on appearing before the court of summary jurisdiction,
declare that he objects to being tried for such offence by a court
of summary jurisdiction, and thereupon the court of summary jurisdiction
may deal with the case in all respects as if the accused were charged
with an indictable offence and not an offence punishable on summary
conviction, and the offence may be prosecuted on indictment accordingly. |
[handwritten in margin]
leave out (not exceeding) insert L3 (amounting to) |
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