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Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1996 (repealed)

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Version Superseded: 19/02/2001

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Point in time view as at 25/08/1996. This version of this provision has been superseded. Help about Status

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There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1996 (repealed), Section 2. Help about Changes to Legislation

2 Preliminary inquiry into scheduled offences.N.I.

(1)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 M1Criminal Jurisdiction Act 1975) the prosecution requests the court to conduct a preliminary inquiry into the offence under the M2Magistrates’ Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981, the court shall, notwithstanding anything in Article 31 of that Order, conduct a preliminary inquiry 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.

(2)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 this section.

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