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CONSTABULARY (IRELAND) ACT 1836 - SECT 25

Penalty on unlawful possession of arms, &c. supplied to constabulary, and on assuming the dress, name, &c. of constables, &c., #10.

25. If any person not appointed and acting under this Act shall have in his or
her possession any arms or ammunition, or any article of clothing,
accoutrements, or appointments, supplied to any person under this Act, and
shall not be able satisfactorily to account for his or her possession thereof,
or shall put on or assume the dress, name, designation, or description of any
person or persons, or of any class of persons, appointed under this Act, for
the purpose of thereby obtaining admission into any house or other place, or
of doing or procuring to be done any other act which such person or persons so
putting on or assuming such dress, name, designation, or description would not
by law be entitled to do or procure to be done of his or their own authority,
every such person so offending shall, in addition to any other punishment to
which he or she may be liable for such offence, forfeit and pay for every such
offence any sum not exceeding the sum of ten pounds,... on summary
conviction....

Ss.2643 rep. by 1874 c.23 s.1 sch.B; SLR 1874; 1887 c.67 s.14 sch.; 1935 c.13
(NI) s.62 sch.5; SLR (NI) 1954; 1970 c.9 (NI) s.33(2) sch.4


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