{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/larceny-act-1916/section-38",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/larceny-act-1916/section-38.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1916/50",
  "legislation_title": "Larceny Act 1916",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/larceny-act-1916",
  "path": "section/38",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "38",
  "heading": "Jurisdiction of quarter sessions",
  "text": "(1) A court of quarter sessions—\n(a) notwithstanding anything in the 5 & 6 Vict. c. 38.Quarter Sessions Act, 1842, shall in England have jurisdiction to try an indictment for burglary;\n(b) shall not have jurisdiction to try an indictment for any offence against sections twenty, twenty-one, and twenty-two of this Act.\n(2) A justice of the peace in England when committing for trial a person charged with burglary shall commit him for trial before a court of assize unless, owing to the absence of any circumstances which make the case a grave or difficult one, he thinks it expedient in the interest of justice to commit him for trial before a court of quarter sessions ; and the 52 & 53 Vict. c. 12.Assizes Relief Act, 1889, shall apply.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1916/50/section/38",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:06:37.384693+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}