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(1)Any offence described in any statute as a "misdemeanour " or a " crime and offence " may be tried in the sheriff court either by indictment or summarily, and, if tried summarily, the imprisonment competent on conviction shall, without prejudice to any wider powers conferred by statute, not exceed three months.
(2)For the removal of doubt it is hereby declared that it is competent to prosecute summarily in the sheriff court the crime of uttering a forged document.
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