Indictable Offences Act Amendment Act 1868

4 Warrants issued in Scotland or Ireland how to be backed in the Channel Islands, and vice versa. U.K.

In the following cases, that is to say,

• Where a warrant is issued against any person by any competent magistrate in Scotland or [F1 Northern Ireland], and such person goes or is supposed to have gone into any of the Channel Islands; or

• Where a warrant is issued against any person by any competent magistrate in any of the Channel Islands, and such person goes or is supposed to have gone into Scotland or Ireland;

any competent magistrate having jurisdiction over the place where such person is or is supposed to be may indorse such warrant in manner provided by the Indictable Offences Act 1848, or as near thereto as circumstances admit.

Any such warrant when so indorsed shall be a sufficient authority to the person or persons bringing the same, and to all persons to whom the same was originally directed, and also to all constables within the limits of the jurisdiction of the magistrate who indorsed the same, to execute such warrant within such last–mentioned limits, and to convey the person when apprehended to any place or places within the limits of the jurisdiction of the magistrate who issued the warrant, and to bring him before that magistrate, or before any other magistrate having jurisdiction over such place or places as aforesaid; and any magistrate before whom the person so apprehended is brought may proceed in the same manner as if such person had been apprehended within his jurisdiction.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words substituted by virtue of Backing of Warrants (Republic of Ireland) Act 1965 (c. 45), s. 9(1)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 4 repealed in relation to the Republic of Ireland by Backing of Warrants (Republic of Ireland) Act 1965 (c. 45), s. 9(1)