18 Sheriffs to have jurisdiction in Scotland.U.K.
In all cases in which by the present or the said recited Act for regulating railways it is provided that offenders shall be taken before one or more justices of the peace for the place within which the offence was committed, it shall be lawful, in case the offence is committed in Scotland, to take such offenders before the sheriff of [F1the sheriffdom], or other magistrate acting for the district within which such offence shall be committed, or where such offender shall be apprehended, without any warrant or authority other than this Act; and such sheriff or magistrate is hereby empowered and required, on the application of the railway company, to proceed in all respects as if the words “sheriff or magistrate” had been substituted for the word “justice” in the said Acts, and shall be entitled summarily, and without a jury, to execute the powers thereby and hereby committed to him.
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F1Word substituted by virtue of Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1971 (c. 58), Sch. 1 para. 1