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INDICTABLE OFFENCES ACT AMENDMENT ACT 1868

INDICTABLE OFFENCES ACT AMENDMENT ACT 1868 - LONG TITLE

An Act to amend the Law relating to the Indorsing of Warrants in
. . . Ireland and the Channel Islands.
[31st July 1868]
Preamble rep. by SLR 1893

S.1 rep. by SLR 1893

INDICTABLE OFFENCES ACT AMENDMENT ACT 1868 - SECT 2
Short title.

2. This Act may be cited for all purposes as "The Indictable
Offences Act Amendment Act, 1868."

INDICTABLE OFFENCES ACT AMENDMENT ACT 1868 - SECT 3
Construction.

3. This Act, so far as is consistent with the tenor thereof, shall
be construed as one with the Indictable Offences Act, 1848, and any
Act amending the same.

INDICTABLE OFFENCES ACT AMENDMENT ACT 1868 - SECT 4
Warrants issued in Ireland may be backed in the Channel Islands,
and vice versa8.

4. In the following cases, that is to say,

Where a warrant is issued against any person by any competent
magistrate in... Ireland, and such person goes or is supposed to
have gone into any of the Channel Islands; or

Where a warrant is issued against any person by any competent
magistrate in any of the Channel Islands, and such person goes or
is supposed to have gone into... Ireland;

Effect of warrants so backed.

Any such warrant when so indorsed shall be a sufficient authority
to the person or persons bringing the same, and to all persons to
whom the same was originally directed, and also to all constables
within the limits of the jurisdiction of the magistrate who indorsed
the same, to execute such warrant within such last-mentioned limits,
and to convey the person when apprehended to any place or places
within the limits of the jurisdiction of the magistrate who issued
the warrant, and to bring him before that magistrate, or before any
other magistrate having jurisdiction over such place or places as
aforesaid; and any magistrate before whom the person so apprehended
is brought may proceed in the same manner as if such person had
been apprehended within his jurisdiction.

INDICTABLE OFFENCES ACT AMENDMENT ACT 1868 - SECT 5
Definition of terms.

5. For the purpose of this Act "competent magistrate" shall mean

In Ireland,

Any justice of the peace, or any judge of [the High Court of
Justice in Northern Ireland] or of [the Crown Court]:

In the Channel Islands,

In Jersey, the bailiff or any lieutenant bailiff within his
bailiwick or jurisdiction:

In Guernsey, the bailiff or any lieutenant bailiff within his
bailiwick or jurisdiction:

In Alderney, the judge of Alderney, or in his absence any jurat of
such island:

In Sark, the seneschal of Sark, or in his absence his deputy
within such island:

"Constable" shall include any peace officer or person authorized to
apprehend persons charged with offences:

"Warrant" shall include any process in the nature of a warrant.