STATUTES. 



509 



Distress not 

 unlawful for 

 want of form. 



cases of misdemeanor, under the provisions of an act passed in 



the seventh year of the reign of King George the Fourth, 



intituled " An Act for improving the Administration of Criminal ^ Geo. 4, c. 64 



Justice in England," and in case the appeal shall be dismissed, 



and the order or conviction affirmed, the reasonable expenses of 



all such witnesses attending as aforesaid, to be ascertained 



by the court, shall be repaid to the said treasurer by the 



appellant. 



21. When any distress shall be made for any money to be 

 levied by virtue of the warrant of any justice under this Act, 

 the distress shall not be deemed unlawful, nor shall any party 

 making the same be deemed a trespasser, on account of any 

 defect or want of form in the information, summons, warrant of 

 apprehension, conviction, warrant of distress, or other proceed- 

 ing relating thereto, nor shall such party be deemed a trespasser 

 from the beginning on account of any irregularity which shall 

 be afterwards committed by him ; but all persons aggrieved by 

 such defect or irregularity may recover full satisfaction for the 

 special damage by an action on the case in any of her majesty's 

 courts of record. 



22. [Plaintiff not to recover after tender of amends (x).] 



23. Limitation of actions.] 



24. And be it enacted, That in Ireland the term " metro- 

 politan police force," and the terms " commissioners of the 

 police of the metropolis,'' and the terms " metropolitan police 

 district," shall mean and include respectively the Dublin metro- 

 politan police force, the commissioners of police of Dublin 

 metropolis, and the police district of Dublin metropolis. 



25. And be it enacted. That no information, conviction or 

 other proceeding before or by any justice or justices under this 

 Act shall be quashed or set aside, or adjudged void or insufficient, 

 for want of form, or be removed by certiorari into her majesty's 

 Court of Queen's Bench. 



Construction 

 of terms. 



Conviction, 

 &c. not to be 

 quashed for 

 informality, 

 &c. 



The First Schedule to which the foregoing Act refers. 



Form of Warrant. 

 County of | To the constable 



"Whereas it appears to me, /. F., one of the justices of our lady the 

 queen, assigned to keep the peace in the said county, by the information 



on oath of ^. B. of , in the county of , yeoman, that the house 



[" room " or "place "] known as [here insert a description of the house, room 

 or place by which it may be readily known and fmind], is kept and used as a 



common gaming house within the meaning of an Act passed in the 



year of the reign of her majesty Queen Victoria, intituled [here insert the 

 title of this Act"] : 



(x) This section and s. 23 were re- Act, 1894. See now the Public 

 pealed by the Statute Law Eevision Authorities Protection Act, 1893. 



