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Amend section seven of the Criminal Justice

Act, 1925.

E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, A.D. 1926. by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, 5 as follows:

1.-(1) There shall be substituted for the subsection Amendment directed by subsection (2) of section seven of the Criminal of s. 7 of Justice Act, 1925 (in this Act referred to as "the princi- Criminal Justice Act, pal Act"), to be substituted for subsection (3) of section 1925. 10 one of the Probation of Offenders Act, 1907, the following 15 & 16 Geo. subsection:

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(3) The court may, where it makes an order 7 Edw. 7. under this section, further order that the offender shall pay such costs of the proceedings, or such damages for injury or compensation for loss (not exceeding in the case of a court of summary jurisdiction twenty-five pounds, or, if a higher limit is fixed by any enactment relating to the offence, that higher limit), as the court thinks reasonable, or both such costs and damages or compensation.

(2) The following further amendments shall be made in section seven of the principal Act:

(a) In subsection (1) for the words "in every case
"where a person as respects whom a probation
"order has been made by a court of summary

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jurisdiction" there shall be substituted the words "in every case where a person in respect "of whom an order has been made by a court "of summary jurisdiction under section one of "the principal Act":

(b) In subsection (4) for the words "probation order" there shall be substituted the word recognizance":

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(c) In subsection (5) for the words "the certificate there shall be substituted the words "any such 10 "certificate, if purporting to be signed by a justice":

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(d) In subsection (6) for the words " where a person
"as respects whom a probation order has been
"made
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"where a person bound by his recognizance to
appear for conviction and sentence."

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2. (1) This Act may be cited as the Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act, 1926, and the principal Act and this Act may be cited together as the Criminal 20 Justice Acts, 1925 and 1926.

(2) Every enactment and word which is directed by this Act to be substituted for any portion of the principal Act shall form part of that Act in the place assigned to it by this Act, and the principal Act shall be construed 25 as if the said enactment or word had been enacted in the principal Act in the place so assigned and had been enacted in lieu of the enactment or word for which it is substituted.

A copy of the principal Act with the amendments 30 required by this Act shall be prepared and certified by the Clerk of the Parliaments and deposited with the Rolls of Parliament, and His Majesty's printer shall print in accordance with the copy so certified all copies of the principal Act which are printed after the 35 commencement of this Act.

Penalties,

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Increase and extend the powers of the court A.D. 1926.
to inflict punishment in the case of certain
crimes.

By and with the advice and consent of the Lords

E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty,

Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, 5 as follows:

1. Where a person is convicted on indictment of Power of two or more offences punishable only by imprisonment court to in respect of which he is liable to be sentenced to terms substitute penal servi of imprisonment amounting in the aggregate to a period tude for 10 of not less than three years, the court may, instead of consecutive sentencing him to imprisonment, sentence him to penal terms of servitude for any term not exceeding the aggregate imprisonperiod for which he might have been sentenced to ment. imprisonment.

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2. (1) This Act may be cited as the Criminal Short title Justice (Increase of Penalties) Act, 1926.

(2) This Act shall not extend to Scotland or to Northern Ireland.

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