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2 1951

CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACT, 1951

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Indictable Offences Which May be Dealt With Summarily by the District Court.

Section 2 .

Ref. No.

Offence

(1)

(2)

1.

An offence in the nature of a public mischief.

2.

An indictable offence consisting of any form of obstruction of the administration of justice or the enforcement of the law.

3.

Perjury.

4.

Riot or unlawful assembly, where the Court is of opinion that the act constituting the offence was not done in furtherance of an organised conspiracy or, if so done, that the conspiracy is at an end.

5.

Assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

6.

Indecent assault.

7.

An offence under section 16 of the Plate Assay (Ireland) Act, 1807 as amended by section 2 of the Plate Assay (Amendment) Act 1931.

8.

An offence under the Larceny Act, 1861, involving property the value of which does not, in the opinion of the Court, exceed fifty pounds.

9.

An offence under section 38 of the Offences against the Person Act, 1861.

10.

An offence under section 60 of the Offences against the Person Act, 1861.

11.

An offence under section 1 of the Falsification of Accounts Act, 1875.

12.

An offence under section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885, where the accused person is over the age of sixteen years and the person with whom the act is alleged to have been committed is either under the age of sixteen or is an idiot, an imbecile or a feeble-minded person.

13.

An offence under the Forgery Act, 1913.

14.

An offence under sections 25, 26 or 27 of the Larceny Act, 1916.

15.

An offence under any provision (other than sections 25, 26 and 27) of the Larceny Act, 1916, involving property the value of which does not, in the opinion of the Court, exceed fifty pounds.

16.

An offence under section 24 of the Enforcement of Court Orders Act, 1926.

17.

An offence under section 11 of the Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1926 .

18.

An offence under section 65 of the Road Traffic Act, 1933 .

19.

Attempted carnal knowledge constituting an offence under sections 1 (2), 2 . (2) or 4 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1935 .

20.

An offence under section 10 of this Act.

21.

An attempt to commit an offence which the District Court has, by virtue of any enactment (including this Act), jurisdiction to try summarily.