Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1996 (repealed) (c. 22)

Part I N.I. Scheduled Offences

Preliminary inquiries, bail and young persons in custody N.I.

5 Maximum period of remand in custody in case of scheduled offences. N.I.

Notwithstanding Article 47(2) and (3) of the M1 Magistrates’ Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981, the period for which a person charged with a scheduled offence (or with a scheduled offence and another offence which is not a scheduled offence) may be remanded in custody by a magistrates’ court shall be a period of not more than twenty-eight days beginning with the day following that on which he is so remanded.

Marginal Citations

M1 S.I. 1981/1675 (N.I. 26).