Part IIU.K. Procedure and Evidence

ProcedureU.K.

7 Jurisdiction of district courts.S

(1)Except in so far as any enactment (including this Act or an enactment passed after this Act) otherwise provides, the statutory offences which it shall be competent for a district court to try shall be those in respect of which the maximum penalty which may be imposed does not exceed 60 days imprisonment or a fine of [F1level 4 on the standard scale] or both.

(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2

(3). . . F3 it shall be competent, whether or not the accused has been previously convicted of an offence inferring dishonest appropriation of property, for any of the following offences to be tried in the district court—

theft or reset of theft, falsehood, fraud or wilful imposition, breach of trust or embezzlement where (in any such case) the amount concerned does not exceed [F1level 4 on the standard scale];

. . . F4

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