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(1)The sheriff shall, without prejudice to any other or wider powers conferred by statute, have power on summarily convicting any person of a common law offence—
(a)to impose a fine not exceeding twenty-five pounds :
(b)to ordain the accused to find caution for good behaviour for any period not exceeding twelve months and to an amount not exceeding twenty-five pounds, such caution being either in lieu of or in addition to a fine or in addition to imprisonment as hereafter in this section mentioned:
(c)failing payment of such fine, or on failure to find such caution, to award imprisonment in accordance with section forty-nine of this Act:
(d)to award imprisonment, for any period not exceeding three months.
(2)The sheriff shall have a concurrent jurisdiction with every other court within his sheriffdom in regard to all offences competent for trial in such courts.
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