SUMMARY JURISDICTION ACT 1879

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SUMMARY JURISDICTION ACT 1879 - SECT 34



34.(1) Where a power is given by any future Act to a court of summary
jurisdiction of requiring any person to do or abstain from doing any act or
thing other than the payment of money, or of requiring any act or thing to be
done or left undone other than the payment of money, and no mode is prescribed
of enforcing such requisition, the court may exercise such power by an order
or orders, and may annex to any such order any conditions as to time or mode
of action which the court may think just, and may suspend or rescind any such
order on such undertaking being given or condition being performed as the
court may think just, and generally may make such arrangement for carrying
into effect such power as to the court seems meet.

(2) A person making default in complying with an order of a court of summary
jurisdiction in relation to any matter arising under any future Act other than
the payment of money, shall be punished in the prescribed manner, or if no
punishment is prescribed, may in the discretion of the court be ordered to pay
a sum (to be enforced as a civil debt recoverable summarily under this Act)
not exceeding one pound for every day during which he is in default, or to be
imprisoned until he has remedied his default:

Provided that a person shall not, for non-compliance with the requisition of a
court of summary jurisdiction, whether made by one or more orders, to do or
abstain from doing any act or thing, be liable under this section to
imprisonment for a period or periods amounting in the aggregate to more than
two months, or to the payment of any sums exceeding in the aggregate twenty
pounds.

S.35 ext. to NI by 1930 c.14 (NI) s.29 which was rep. by 1947 c.3 (NI) s.120
sch.8

Special definitions for purposes of the Act.

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SUMMARY JURISDICTION ACT 1879 - SECT 34