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Justices Act 1886

sec.178Power to withhold fines payable to informers

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### sec.178 Power to withhold fines payable to informers The justices may adjudge that no part of a penalty, or such part only of a penalty as they think fit, shall be paid to an informer, not being a party aggrieved, unless by the Act on which the conviction is founded it is expressly directed that a moiety or other fixed portion of the penalty shall be paid to the informer.

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