§ [No. 79]
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Schedule 8, page 66, line 45, at end insert—
.At the end of the said section 14 add:—
(6) The powers conferred by this section shall not be taken as restricted by any enactment about committal by a magistrates' court to the Crown Court which authorises the Crown Court to deal with an offender in any way in which the magistrates' court might have dealt with him:
Provided that any term fixed under subsection (1)(c) above as respects a fine imposed by the Crown Court in pursuance of such an enactment, that is to say a fine which the magistrates' court could have imposed, shall not exceed the period applicable to that fine (if imposed by the magistrates' court) under Schedule 3 to the Magistrates' Courts Act 1952 or section 285 of the Customs and Excise Act 1952."
§ THE LORD CHANCELLORMy Lords, I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 79. This Amendment will enable the Crown Court to impose 854 a penalty of imprisonment, in default of payment of a fine, in certain cases where courts of assize or quarter sessions do not have such power at the moment, owing to a lacuna in the Criminal Justice Act, 1967.
§ Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.—(The Lord Chancellor.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.