PART XIIIN.I.GENERAL

Power of High Court to ament summary orders, etc.N.I.

Amendment of order of magistrates' court on application to quash itN.I.

159.  Without prejudice to section 25 of the Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978, where—

(a)on the hearing of any application to the High Court to quash the order (including a conviction) of a magistrates' court there appears to be an omission or mistake in the order; and

(b)the High Court is satisfied that such omission or mistake is of an obvious or clerical nature and that the magistrates' court ought to have caused the order to be drawn up free from that omission or mistake,

the High Court may, upon such terms as to costs or otherwise as it thinks proper, amend the order and adjudicate thereon as if the omission or mistake had not happened.