This Act may be cited as the Justices of the Peace Amendment Act, 1908, and shall be read together with and deemed to form part of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

Any information or complaint, and any affidavit of the service of any summons, authorised by or required for the purposes of the principal Act may be sworn, taken, or received before or by either a Justice or the Clerk of a Court constituted under the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1908, or the deputy of such Clerk, if such Clerk of Court or deputy has been authorised so to do by warrant under the hand of the Governor.

Where any person who would, if convicted summarily, be liable in pursuance of section thirty of the Crimes Act, 1908, to be ordered to be brought before the Supreme Court or a Judge thereof to be dealt with as an habitual offender has claimed, in pursuance of section one hundred and twenty-two of the principal Act, to be tried by a jury, and thereafter is convicted on indictment, or where any person so liable as aforesaid is, in pursuance of section one hundred and seventy-six of the principal Act, committed to the Supreme Court for sentence, he may be declared an habitual offender and dealt with accordingly as if he had been summarily convicted and brought before the Supreme Court or a Judge thereof to be dealt with in pursuance of section thirty of the Crimes Act, 1908.