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The Magistrates' Courts (Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996) (Tainted Acquittals) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1997

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2.  Where a person is convicted before a court of summary jurisdiction of an offence as referred to in section 54(1)(b) and it appears to the court that the provisions of section 54(2) are satisfied, the court shall make the certification referred to in section 54(2) at any time following conviction, but no later than—

(a)immediately after the court sentences or otherwise deals with that person in respect of the offence, or

(b)where, in the case of a child or young person, the court remits him to a juvenile court to be dealt with in respect of the offence, immediately after he is so remitted, or

(c)where the court adjourns the case to a court of summary jurisdiction sitting for a different petty sessions district, immediately before the case is so adjourned.

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