Criminal Justice Administration Act 1851

XVIIIBy whom warrants to be backed in the Channel Island.

And whereas by Section Thirteen of the [11 & 12 Vict. cc. 42. & 43.] Act of the Section holden in the Eleventh and Twelfth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Forty-two, Provision is made for indorsing such Wan-ants as therein mentioned by any Officer within any of the Isles of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, and Sark, who shall have Jurisdiction to issue any Warrant or Process in the Nature of a Warrant for the Apprehension of Offenders, and other Provisions are made in the same Act, and in the Act of the same Year of Her Majesty, Chapter Forty-three, by reference to the Enactment of the said Section, and Doubts have arisen by whom Warrants should be indorsed in the said Isles pursuant to the said Provisions: Be it enacted, That the Bailiffs of Jersey and Guernsey respectively, or in their respective Absence the Lieutenant Bailiffs of such Islands respectively, within their respective Bailiwicks or Jurisdictions, the Judge of Alderney, or in his Absence any Jurat of such Island within such Island, and the Seneschal of Sark, or in his Absence his Deputy within such Island, shall have all such Power and Authority to indorse Warrants as by the said Acts respectively is given or expressed or intended to be given to any Officer within any of such Isles haying Jurisdiction to issue any Warrant or Process in the Nature of a Warrant for the Apprehension of Offenders, and for such Purpose shall have Authority to administer an Oath, and all the Provisions of the said Acts shall be construed as if the Officers authorized to indorse Warrants by this Enactment had been ,so authorized by the said Section of the first-mentipned Act of the Eleventh and Twelfth Years of Her Majesty.