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24 & 25 Vict. c. 100. s. 38.
Summary jurisdiction in cases of assault on peace officers, &c.
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10. And whereas by the Offences against the Person Act, 1861, section thirty-eight, certain assaults therein specified on peace officers and others are made misdemeanors, and punishable with imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour, and it is desirable also to give a summary jurisdiction in petty cases for the same offence: Be it enacted, that two justices of the peace shall have a concurrent jurisdiction to punish such assaults under the forty-second section of the said Act, if they shall consider the offence so trivial as not to require being dealt with by a superior tribunal.
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