Part 3

Magistrates' courts

Criminal jurisdiction and procedure

Trial of summary offences
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For section 2 of the 1980 Act substitute—

Trial of summary offences
2
1
A magistrates' court has jurisdiction to try any summary offence.
2
A magistrates' court has jurisdiction as examining justices over any offence committed by a person who appears or is brought before the court.
3
Subject to—
a
sections 18 to 22, and
b
any other enactment (wherever contained) relating to the mode of trial of offences triable either way,
a magistrates' court has jurisdiction to try summarily any offence which is triable either way.
4
A magistrates' court has jurisdiction, in the exercise of its powers under section 24, to try summarily an indictable offence.
5
This section does not affect any jurisdiction over offences conferred on a magistrates' court by any enactment not contained in this Act.