Part I

Scheduled Offences

Preliminary enquiries, bail and young persons in custody

Preliminary enquiry into scheduled offences.
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Where in any proceedings before a magistrates’ court for a scheduled offence (not being an extra-territorial offence as defined in section 1(3) of the Criminal Jurisdiction Act 1975) the prosecutor requests the court to conduct a preliminary enquiry into the offence under the Magistrates’ Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981, the court shall, notwithstanding anything in Article 31 of that Order of 1981, conduct a preliminary enquiry into the offence unless the court is of opinion that in the interests of justice a preliminary investigation should be conducted into the offence under that Order of 1981.
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Where in any proceedings a person charged with a scheduled offence is also charged with another offence which is not a scheduled offence, that other offence shall be treated as a scheduled offence for the purposes of subsection (1) above.
Act repealed (27.8.1991) by Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1991 (c. 24, SIF 39:1), ss. 69(1), 70(4), Schedule 8 PartI
1975 c. 59.
Words substituted by S.I. 1981/1675 (N.I. 26), art. 170(2), Sch. 6 Pt. I, para. 48(a)
1981/1675
Words substituted by S.I. 1981/1675 (N.I. 26), art. 170(2), Sch. 6 Pt. I, para. 48(b)
Words substituted by S.I. 1981/1675 (N.I. 26), art. 170(2), Sch. 6 Pt. I, para. 48(c)