47 & 48 VICT. CAP. 58. An Act for Amending the Prosecution of Offences [14th August, 1884.] Act, 1879. C. 22. WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Prosecution 42 & 43 Vict, of Offences Act, 1879 (in this Act referred to as the principal Act): Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, 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, as follows: of Act. 1. This Act may be cited as the Prosecution of Short titler Offences Act, 1884, and this Act and the principal Act may be together cited as the Prosecution of Offences Acts, 1879 and 1884. of the be director prosecu 2. On and after the passing of this Act, all Solicitor appointments made in pursuance of the principal Treasury to Act are revoked, and the person for the time holding of public the office of solicitor for the affairs of Her Majesty's tions. Treasury shall be director of public prosecutions, and perform the duties and have the powers of such director. C. 18. Section three of the Treasury Solicitor Act, 1876, 39 & 40 Vict. shall extend to authorize any assistant solicitor for the affairs of Her Majesty's Treasury to act on behalf of the said solicitor in his capacity of director of public prosecutions. The following is the enactment which is extended by the above section :-" An assistant solicitor for the affairs of Her Majesty's Treasury may, on behalf of the Treasury solicitor, take any oath, make any declaration, verify any account, execute any deed, or do any act or thing whatsoever which the Treasury solicitor is required or authorized under any Act of Parliament or otherwise to take, make, verify, execute, or do for the purpose of an administration granted to him, or Note to for the purpose of any Act of Parliament, or otherwise in the Sect. 2. execution of his duties as the Treasury solicitor." Returns as to crimes by chief officer of police. Definitions of "police district" and "chief officer of police." Repeal of part of principal Act. 3. The chief officer of every police district in England shall, from time to time, give to the director of public prosecutions information with respect to indictable offences alleged to have been committed within the district of such chief officer, and to the dealing with those offences, and the said information shall contain such particulars and be in such form as may be for the time being required by regulations under the principal Act. 4. The expression "police district" means- (2.) The metropolitan police district; and (2.) In the metropolitan police district the com- (3.) Elsewhere the chief constable, or head constable, or other officer, by whatever name called, having the chief command of the police in a police district as defined by this Act. 5. There shall be repealed the first paragraph of section two of the principal Act, beginning with the words "a Secretary of State," and ending with the word "fix," also sections three and four of the principal Act. APPENDIX. I. EXPENSES OF PROSECUTIONS. 14 & 15 VICT. CAP. 55. An Act to amend the Law relating to the Expenses of Prosecutions, and to make further Provision for the Apprehension and Trial of Offenders, in certain Cases. [1st August, 1851.] C. 64. WHEREAS by the Act of the seventh year of King 7 Geo. 4, George the Fourth, chapter sixty-four, certain provisions were made relating to the allowance of costs, expenses, and compensations to prosecutors and witnesses in cases of prosecutions for felonies and certain misdemeanors therein mentioned, [and the regulation and ascertaining of such costs and expenses, and relating to the allowance of compensation to persons who may have been active in the apprehension of offenders or persons charged with offences; and provisions have been made by other Acts relating to costs, expenses, and compensations in cases of prosecutions in respect of the offences therein mentioned: And whereas it is expedient to amend the law relating to costs, expenses, and compensations in cases of criminal prosecutions : Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, Appndx. in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that— So much of 7 Geo. 4, as to ex 1. So much of section twenty-three of the said c. 64, s. 23, Act of the seventh year of King George the Fourth as provides that in cases of misdemeanor the power of ordering the payment of expenses and compensation shall not extend to the attendance before the examining magistrate, shall be repealed. penses of attendance before examining magistrate, &c., repealed. Power of courts to allow ex penses in prosecutions for demeanors other mis demeanors. 2. All the provisions of the said Act of the seventh year of King George the Fourth, as amended by this Act, authorizing and empowering courts to certain mis- order payment of costs and expenses, and comextended to pensation for trouble and loss of time, in cases of the several misdemeanors enumerated in section twenty-three of the said Act of King George the Fourth, and concerning orders for payment of such costs, expenses, and compensation, and the payment thereof, and all the provisions of any other Act for, concerning, or applicable to the payment of such costs, expenses, and compensation in cases of the said misdemeanors, shall extend and be applicable in the case of any of the misdemeanors hereinafter mentioned; namely, unlawfully and carnally knowing and abusing any girl being above the age of ten years and under the age of twelve years; unlawfully taking or causing to be taken any unmarried girl, being under the age of sixteen years, out of the possession and against the will of her father or mother, or of any other person having the lawful care or charge of her; conspiring to charge any person with any felony, or to indiet any person of any felony; conspiring to commit Appndx. any felony (a). So much of 7 Geo. 4, the c. 64, as or 4. So much of the said Act of the seventh year of King George the Fourth (b), as empowers justices of the peace of any county, riding, division, or of any liberty, franchise, city, town, place, chargeable with costs and expenses as there in mentioned, in quarter sessions assembled, to establish and alter regulations as to the rate of any costs and expenses to be allowed by virtue of that Act, shall be repealed: Provided always, that all such regulations in force at the time of the passing of this Act shall continue in force until revoked or until regulations in relation to the matter thereof are made under the powers of this Act. empowers sessions to make regu lations as to costs and expenses, repealed. state may lations as to penses, and or compensaand certificates tions, and to be 5. It shall be lawful for one of Her Majesty's Secretary of principal secretaries of state to revoke any regula- make regutions made under the provision hereinbefore re- costs, expealed, and to make regulations as to the rates scales of payment of all or any costs, expenses, compensations to be allowed or ordered to be paid granted by under the said Act or any other Act or this Act to examining prosecutors and witnesses, and to persons attending the court in obedience to any recognizance or subpœna, in cases of criminal prosecutions, and (except as hereinafter mentioned) to persons who may have been active in or towards the apprehension of persons charged with offences, and also regulations as (a) See 29 & 30 Vict. c. 52, s. 1, post, p. 465. magistrates. |