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88c. 43


 * “petty-sessional court-house” means any of the following, that is to say—
 * (a) a court-house or place at which justices are accustomed to assemble for holding special or petty sessions or for the time being appointed as a substitute for such a court-house or place (including, where justices are accustomed to assemble for either special or petty sessions at more than one court-house or place in a petty sessional division, any such court-house or place);
 * (b) a court-house or place at which a stipendiary magistrate is authorised by law to do alone any act authorised to be done by more than one justice of the peace;
 * “petty sessions area” means any of the following areas, that is to say, a non-metropolitan county which is not divided into petty sessional divisions, a petty sessional division of a non-metropolitan county, a metropolitan district which is not divided into petty sessional divisions, a petty sessional division of a metropolitan district, a London commission area which is not divided into petty sessional divisions, a petty sessional division of a London commission area and the City of London;
 * “prescribed” means prescribed by the rules;
 * “the register” means the register of proceedings before a magistrates’ court required by the rules to be kept by the clerk of the court;
 * “the rules” means rules made under section 144 above;
 * “sentence” does not include a committal in default of payment of any sum of money, or for want of sufficient distress to satisfy any sum of money, or for failure to do or abstain from doing anything required to be done or left undone;
 * “sum enforceable as a civil debt” means—
 * (a) any sum recoverable summarily as a civil debt which is adjudged to be paid by the order of a magistrates’ court;
 * (b) any other sum expressed by this or any other Act to be so enforceable;
 * “transfer of fine order” has the meaning assigned to it by section 89 above.