PART II

Summary Procedure

Jurisdiction

When six months' imprisonment competent
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Where a person is convicted by the sheriff of—
a
a second or subsequent offence inferring dishonest appropriation of property, or attempt thereat, or
b
a second or subsequent offence inferring personal violence,
he may, without prejudice to any wider powers conferred by statute, be sentenced to imprisonment for any period not exceeding six months.