3Reference treated as appeal: Northern Ireland
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(1)A reference under section 1(1) above of a verdict returned in Northern Ireland in the case of a person shall be treated for all purposes as an appeal by the person under section 12 of the [1980 c. 47.] Criminal Appeal (Northern Ireland) Act 1980.
(2)In their application to such a reference by virtue of subsection (1) above, sections 12 and 13 of that Act shall have effect—
(a)as if references to the finding of not guilty on the ground of insanity were to the verdict referred under section 1(1) above, and
(b)as if, in section 13(5A), for the words “there should have been findings that the accused was unfit to be tried and that he” there were substituted “the accused was unfit to be tried and”.