TABLE IX.-COURTS OF SUMMARY JURISDICTION.-Proceedings in Quasi-Criminal Matters. Sureties of the Peace: Orders to find Sureties to keep the Peace or for Good Behaviour: (i) Made on Complaint when no Offence has been charged (ii) Made when a Criminal Offence has been charged but the original proceedings have been discontinued. Bastardy Orders 8,849 7,075 3,183 153 858 1,864 308 Married Women: Maintenance Orders under the Summary Juris- 12,738 diction (Married Women) Act, 1895, sec. 5, the Licensing Act, 1902, sec. 5 (2), and the Married Women (Maintenance) Act, 1920. 8,740 4,043 431 1,239 1,936 437 Children Orders for the payment of Maintenance under the Children Act, 1908, secs. 22, 75, and 82, and Education Act, 1921, sec. 65. TOTAL Maintenance Orders enforceable as if convictions 22,352 16,544 7,385 585 2,120 3,876 804 In addition to the above number of Maintenance Orders, ten Maintenance Orders made outside the United Kingdom were registered by Courts of Summary Jurisdiction under the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Act, 1920, and eleven Provisional Orders were confirmed. None of these was enforced Under the same Act 24 Orders were sent for registration and 37 Provisional Orders were sent for confirmation and enforcement by British by imprisonment. Courts outside the United Kingdom. TABLE IX.-COURTS OF SUMMARY JURISDICTION.-Proceedings in Quasi-Criminal Matters-continued. PART II.-OTHER QUASI-CRIMINAL ORDERS, &c. (1) (3) (2) Number Number SUBJECT OF PROCEEDINGS. Property, Goods, &c. Goods stolen, &c.: Orders for Restoration after Conviction Goods unlawfully distrained: Orders for Restoration, &c. TOTAL Employers and Workmen. Orders under Employers and Workmen Act, 1875, secs. 4 Orders for Seamen's Wages under Merchant Shipping TOTAL Children and Young Persons. Attendance Orders under the Education Act, 1921, secs. 44 and 54. Committals to Industrial Schools under Education Act, 1921, sec. 45, and Children Act, 1908, sec. 58 (6). Education Act, 1921, sec. 96 (3) (Day Industrial Schools), Arts. 8 Probation Orders: Orders under the Children Act, 1908, secs. 58 (4) and 60. Parental Control of Children: Orders under the Poor Young Girls: Recognizances of Parents, &c., for due care and supervision. 2 2 TOTAL 5,259 5,031 a These Orders, having been made in proceedings which are criminal in form, are also included in Table VIII or XII. b441 of these Orders were made in criminal proceedings under sec. 58 (2) and (3) of the Children Act, 1908, and are therefore also included in Table VIII or XII. • 17 of these Orders were made in criminal proceedings under sec. 58 (2) and (3) of the Children Act, 1908, and are therefore also included in Table VIII. TABLE IX.-COURTS OF SUMMARY JURISDICTION.-Proceedings in Quasi-Criminal Matters-continued. PART II.—OTHER QUASI-CRIMINAL ORDERS, &c.—continued. Houses Unfit for Human Habitation: Orders prohibiting use of. 1,080 836 4 4 Orders for Overcrowded Houses: Orders for closing Note. Similar Orders to the above, made under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, are included under the appropriate heads. Dangerous and Neglected Structures: Orders relating to Orders to Destroy 102 100 Orders to pay damages for injury done to Cattle Habitual Drunkards: Orders for Notices of Conviction to be sent to Police Authorities : Pirated Copyright Works: Orders for Forfeiture or to Poor Law: Orders for Maintenance of Wife, Family, or Separation Orders (including Orders containing provisions for separation and wife's maintenance, included in Part I) : Orders granted to Husbands of Habitual Drunkards Territorial Force Forfeitures for failure to fulfil Training There were also two appeals against dismissals of informations, viz:-Breach of Revenue Laws: one allowed; Offences against Diseases of Animals Acts: one allowed. The numbers and results of Appeals against Orders made by Courts of Summary Jurisdiction and of Special Cases stated under 20 and 21 Vict. c. 43, and 42 and 43 Vict. c. 49, which were heard in the High Court of Justice, will be found in Tables XXIV and IV respectively, of the Civil Judicial Statistics for 1923. TABLE XI.-JUVENILE COURTS.-Persons charged with Offences, Nature of Offences, and Results of Proceedings. Note. This Table includes only children and young persons dealt with in Juvenile Courts, but not adults dealt with by Juvenile Courts, nor children and young persons dealt with by ordinary Courts of Summary Jurisdiction. The figures in columns 5 to 22 are included in the figures in the corresponding columns of Table VIII: those in columns 3 and 4 are similarly included in Table XVI. |