Criminal Justice Administration Act 1851

XIXIn certain Counties of Cities and Towns Prisoners maybe committed, and tried at Assizes held for adjoining County.

Whenever any Justice or Justices of the Peace, or Coroner, acting for any County of a City or County of a Town Corporate within which Her Majesty has not been pleased for Five Years next before the passing of this Act to direct a Commission of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery to be executed, and until Her Majesty shall be pleased to direct a Commission of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery to he executed within the same, shall commit for safe Custody to the Gaol or House of Correction of such County of a City or Town any Person charged with any Offence committed within the Limits of such County of a City or Town not triable at the Court of Quarter Sessions of the said County of a City or County of a Town, the Commitment shall specify that such Person is committed pursuant to this Act, and the Recognizances to appear to prosecute and give Evidence taken by such Justice, Justices, or Coroner shall in all such Cases be conditioned for Appearance, Prosecution, and giving Evidence at the Court of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery for the next adjoining Comity ; and whenever any such Person shall be so committed, the Keeper of such Gaol or House of Correction shall deliver to the Judges of Assize for such next adjoining County a Calendar of all Prisoners in his Custody so committed, in the same way that the Sheriff of the County would be by Law required to do if such Prisoners had been committed to the Common Gaol of such adjoining County; and the Justice, Justices, or Coroner by whom Persons charged as aforesaid may be committed, shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the proper Officer of the Court the several Examinations, Informations, Evidence, Recognizances, and Inquisitions relative to such Persons at the Time and in the Manner that would be required in case such Persons had been committed to the Gaol of such adjoining County by a Justice or Justices, or Coroner, having Authority so to commit, and the same Proceedings shall and may be had thereupon at the Sessions of Oyer and Terminer or General Gaol Delivery for such adjoining County as in the Case of Persons charged with Offences of the like Nature committed within such County.