Page:The Agricultural Children Act, 1873, and the Agricultural Gangs Act, 1867.djvu/24

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AGRICULTURAL GANGS.

fee shall be accounted for and applied in manner in which the fees ordinarily received by the authority granting the licence are applicable.

Licence, how affected by Conviction of Gangmaster.

10. On any conviction of a gangmaster of any offence against this Act the Justices who convict him shall endorse on his licence the fact of such conviction; and on any conviction of such gangmaster of a second offence against this Act the Justices may, in addition to any other penalty, withhold his licence for a period not exceeding three months; and on any conviction of any gangmaster of a third offence against this Act the Justices may, in addition to any other penalty, withhold his licence for a period not exceeding two years

And after a fourth conviction for an offence against this Act the gangmaster shall be disqualified from holding or receiving a licence under this Act.

Recovery of Penalties.

11. All penalties under this Act may be recovered summarily before two or more Justices in manner directed by an Act passed in the session holden in the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, chapter forty three,[1] intituled An Act to facilitate the Performance of the Duties of Justices of the Peace out of Sessions within England and Wales with respect to summary Convictions and Orders, or any Act amending the same.

Extent of Act.

12. This Act shall not apply to Scotland or Ireland.


  1. See note †, on p. 9, ante

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