http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/22/section/2/1996-08-25Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1996 (repealed)An Act to re-enact, with omissions and amendments, the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1991; and for connected purposes.1996-06-17texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2015-07-161996-08-25 Part I Scheduled Offences Preliminary inquiries, bail and young persons in custody Preliminary inquiry into scheduled offences.21Where 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 prosecution requests the court to conduct a preliminary inquiry into the offence under the Magistrates’ 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.2Where 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.1975 c. 59. S.I. 1981/1675 (N.I. 26).
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