Cattle Stealing Prevention Act 1853

All proceedings under this Act for the recovery of penalties or forfeitures shall be had and taken in a summary way, and where not otherwise provided for, may be carried on in the manner directed by an Act of Parliament passed in the session of the 11th and 12th years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled ‘An Act to facilitate the performance of the duties of justices of the peace out of sessions, within England and Wales with respect to summary convictions and orders’, or according to the law in force for the time being, regulating summary proceedings before justices of the peace out of sessions.

And no information in writing shall be necessary previous to the issuing a summons. Want of form, no certiorari

And no information, summons, warrant, conviction, commitment, or other proceeding before or by any justices of the peace, for any offence under this Act, shall be quashed, or set aside, or judged void or insufficient for want of form, or be removed by certiorari, or otherwise, into Her Majesty’s Supreme Court.

And in any information, summons, warrant, conviction, commitment, or other proceeding, for any offence under this Act, it shall be sufficient if the offence be stated in the words thereof declaring the offence. Informer a competent witness

And in all proceedings under this Act the informer or party prosecuting shall be deemed a competent witness.

And it shall be lawful for the justices to amend any proceedings before them on such terms as they shall think fit.