Penalty for forging, &c. Certificate.
13. Every person who forges or counterfeits any certificate required by this Act, or gives or signs any such certificate falsely, or wilfully makes use of any forged, counterfeited, or false certificate, or aids in or abets any of the foregoing offences, shall be liable to be imprisoned for any period not exceeding three months with or without hard labour.
Penalty on Offences against Act.'
14. Every person guilty of an offence against this Act for which no other punishment is imposed by this Act, shall be liable, if he be an employer or an agent to a penalty not exceeding five pounds, and if he be any other person to a penalty not exceeding one pound.
Summary Proceedings for Offences against Act.
15. All offences against this Act, and all penalties[1] under this Act, may be prosecuted and recovered in manner directed by the Summary Jurisdiction Acts,[2] before a court of summary jurisdiction, which, when hearing and determining an information or complaint, or any application under this Act, shall be constituted of two or more justices of the peace in petty sessions sitting at a place appointed for holding petty sessions, or of some magistrate or officer for the time being empowered by law to do alone[3]any act authorized to<references>
- ↑ The penalties will (under 11 & 12 Vict. c. 43. s. 81) be payable "to the treasurer of the county, riding, division, liberty, city, borough, or place for which the Justice or Justices shall have acted."
- ↑ See definition in § 4 ante.
- ↑ Allusion seems to be here made especially to the various Acts relating to Stipendiary Magistrates: see for instance 21 & 22 Vict. c. 73, ss. 1-2, and 26 & 27 Vict, c. 97.
