Part III Criminal Procedure, Penalties, etc.
Allocation of offences to classes as regards mode of trial
15 Offences which are to become triable only summarily.
1
The following offences shall be triable only summarily (instead of either way), namely—
a
the offences mentioned (and broadly described) in column 1 of Schedule 1 to this Act; . . . F1
b
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F22
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F23
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4
The following offences under the M1Night Poaching Act 1828 shall be triable only summarily (instead of only on indictment), namely—
a
offences under section 2 of that Act (assaults by persons committing offences under the Act);
b
offences under section 9 of that Act (entering land, with others, armed and for the purpose of taking or destroying game or rabbits).
5
Subsections (1) and (4) above are without prejudice to any other enactment by virtue of which any offence is triable only summarily.