Offences punishable summarily

Any prosecution for an offence against this Act, or of any regulation or by-law made under this Act, and any proceedings for the recovery of any penalty, forfeiture, costs or expenses directed to be recovered in a summary manner, or the recovery of which is not otherwise provided for, may be heard and determined by a summary jurisdiction court, and any magistrate before whom an offence has been duly proved against any person, upon application by or on behalf of the Director of Health Services or any Town Council, may in lieu of imposing any penalty or forfeiture make an order compelling such person to do or abstain from doing any act or thing the doing of which or the failure to perform which constitutes such offence.