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Limitation of time within which proceedings must be commenced.
Justice of the district in which the work is given out to have authority to act.
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26. In all cases of complaint of any offence or offences committed against the provisions of this Act complaint is to be made within four months from the commission of the same, unless the offending party may have in the meantime left the country; and in all cases where the complaint is either made by a manufacturer or agent against a weaver or worker, or by a weaver or worker against any manufacturer or agent, the nearest justice of the peace of the district in which the cloths, yarns, materials, tools, or apparatus are given out to the weaver or worker, and taken in from him, whether such weaver or worker resides within the district or county or not, shall have full power and authority and is hereby required to act when applied to; and in all such cases the court of petty sessions or of quarter sessions of the said district is hereby authorized and required to hear and determine such complaint.
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