Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1848

To what proceeding this Act shall not extend.

35. [1] Nothing in this Act shall extend or be construed to extend to any warrant or order for the removal of any poor person who is or shall become chargeable to any parish, township, or place; nor to any complaints or orders made with respect to lunatics, or the expenses incurred for the lodging, maintenance, medicine, clothing, or care of any lunatic or insane person; . . . nor shall anything in this Act extend or be construed to extend to any complaints, orders, or warrants in matters of bastardy made against the putative father of any bastard child, save and except such of the provisions aforesaid as relate to the backing of warrants for compelling the appearance of such putative father or warrants of distress, or to the levying of sums ordered to be paid, or to the imprisonment of a defendant for nonpayment of the same; . . .

[S. 36 rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66. (S.L.R.)]

[1 See note to s. 6]