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Recovery of penalties.
5 & 6 Will. 4. c. 76.
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13. All penalties and forfeitures imposed by this Act shall and may be recovered, with costs, either by information or complaint, by summary proceedings before any justice or justices of the peace residing in or near to the place where the offence shall be committed, or where the offender shall at any time happen to be, and whether the offence be committed in or out of her Majesty’s dominions, or within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England, or not; and if the sum imposed as a penalty by any such justice or justices shall not be paid either immediately after the conviction or within such reasonable time as such justice or justices shall at the time of the conviction appoint, it shall be lawful for the justice or justices to commit the offender or offenders to the common gaol or house of correction, there to be imprisoned only, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour, according to the discretion of such justice or justices, . . . and all penalties and forfeitures recoverable under this Act shall be paid and applied in manner following; (that is to say,) one moiety of such penalty shall be paid to the informer or complainant, and the residue thereof shall be paid of the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital, anything in the Municipal Corporation Act, 1835, or in any other Act or Acts of Parliament to the contrary notwithstanding.
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