Quarter Sessions Act Amendment Act 1834 No 22a (NSW)

No. XVII.

An Act to amend an Act intituled "An Act for

" instituting and regulating Courts of General " and Quarter Sessions in New South Wales."

[25th October, 1834.]

" An Act to provide for the Administration of Justice in New South	WHEREAS by an Act of Parliament passed in the ninth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth intituled
" Wales and Van Diemen's Land and for the more effectual Govern- " ment thereof and for other purposes relating thereto" it was amongst
other things enacted That it should and might be lawful for the Governor of New South Wales with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof to institute Courts of General and Quarter Sessions within the said Colony by Ordinances to be from time to time for that purpose made and enacted and to give and grant to such Courts power and authority to take cognizance in a summary way of all crimes misdemeanors and other offences or misconduct not punishable by death which had been or should be committed by any felons or other offenders who had been or should be transported to the said Colony and whose sentences had not expired and had not been remitted And whereas by an Act or Ordinance of the Governor of the said Colony with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof passed in the tenth year of the reign of His said late Majesty King George the Fourth intituled " An Act for instituting
" and regulating Courts of General and Quarter Sessions in New
" South Wales " it was amongst other things enacted That the said Courts of General and Quarter Sessions should further have power and authority to take cognizance in a summary way of all crimes misdemeanors and other offences not punishable by death which had been

been or should be committed by any felon who had been or should be transported to the said Colony and whose term or sentence had not expired or been remitted at the time of committing such offences and also of all complaints made against any such offenders for drunkenness disobedience of orders neglect abusive language or other disorderly conduct and the said offences respectively to punish according to law

And whereas it is expedient to remove any doubts which may arise as

to the summary jurisdiction intended to be vested in the said Courts of General Quarter Sessions Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of New South Wales with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof That such and the like summary jurisdiction power and authority as in and by the said recited Act or Ordinance are vested in the said Courts of General Quarter Sessions over any trans­ ported felon as therein mentioned shall and may be exercised by the said Courts over any other offender who shall have been or shall he transported to the said Colony and whose term or sentence hath not expired or been remitted at the time of the offence committed by or complaint made against such transported offender and that such trans­ ported offender shall he further liable to be dealt with in such and the like manner as a transported felon is liable under and by virtue of the said recited Act or Ordinance.