Tweed Fisheries Act 1857

XCIII Form of Proceedings against Offenders.U.K.

Any Information, Complaint, and Proceedings before the Sheriff or Justice or Justices before whom any Person shall be complained of or proceeded against for any Offence under the Provisions of this Act, and the Warrants, Sentence, or Conviction thereon, may be in the Form of the Schedule (B.) hereunto annexed, or as near thereto as may be, and may be printed or written or partly printed and partly written, and no written Record of Evidence shall be necessary unless either Party before such Complaint shall be heard requires the Sheriff or Justice or Justices to take Notes of the Evidence to be adduced, which such Sheriff or Justice or Justices shall do or cause to be done, and the Notes so taken shall be deemed and held in any subsequent Proceedings as a sufficient Record of the Evidence under such Complaint.