SCHEDULE 3U.K.Mutual recognition of financial penalties: amendments of Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008

9.—(1) Section 89 (modification of Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981) M1 is amended as follows.U.K.

(2) After subsection (5) insert—

(6) Where a transfer of fine order is made under Article 95 of the Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 as applied by section 88(6) of this Act—

(a)subsections (7A) to (8) of section 85 of this Act apply in relation to the powers conferred by section 91 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (transfer of fines from Northern Ireland) as a result of the order as they apply in relation to the powers conferred on a magistrates' court by virtue of section 85(6) of this Act, and

(b)for this purpose—

(i)references in those subsections to the financial penalty are to be treated as references to the financial penalty to which the order relates, and

(ii)references in those subsections to the certificate are to be treated as references to the certificate by virtue of which the order is made..

(3) In the heading, at the end insert etc.

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