PART V N.I.CRIMINAL JURISDICTION AND PROCEDURE

Supplemental matters in connection with criminal procedure N.I.

Disposal of non-pecuniary forfeitures N.I.

58.  Subject to any other enactment governing forfeiture or the disposal of things forfeited, anything other than money forfeited on a conviction by a magistrates' court or the forfeiture of which may be enforced by such court shall be sold or otherwise disposed of in such manner as the court may direct; and the proceeds may be applied as if they were a fine imposed under the enactment on which the proceedings for the forfeiture are founded.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Art. 58 excluded (8.2.2007) by Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006 (c. 36), ss. 103, 126(2), Sch. 5 para. 6

Aiders and abettors N.I.

59.  Without prejudice to any other enactment, a person who aids, abets, counsels or procures the commission by another person [F1 of] a summary offence shall himself be guilty of that offence and may be tried and convicted (whether or not he is charged as a principal) either by a court having jurisdiction to try that other person or by a court having by virtue of his own offence jurisdiction to try him and may be tried either together with that other person or before or after that other person has been tried.

F1 1986 NI 15

Attempt or incitement, etc., to commit summary offences N.I.

60.—(1) F2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(2) Where a person is charged before a magistrates' court with a summary offence, and it appears to the court that the person charged did not commit the offence charged but that he was guilty of attempting to commit that offence, the court may convict him of attempting to commit that offence and may punish him in the same manner as if he has been charged with attempting to commit that offence.

F2 Art. 60(1) repealed (1.10.2008) by Serious Crime Act 2007 (c. 27), ss. 63(2), 92, 94(1), Sch. 6 para. 56, Sch. 14 (with Sch. 13 para. 5); S.I. 2008/2504, art. 2(a)(i)

Art. 61 rep. by 1989 NI 12