Part VII Northern Ireland
Scheduled offences
69 Maximum period of remand in custody.
(1)
The period for which a person charged with a scheduled offence may be remanded in custody by a magistrates’ court shall be a period of not more than 28 days beginning with the day following that on which he is remanded.
(2)
Subsection (1) has effect—
(a)
notwithstanding Article 47(2) F1. . . of the M1Magistrates’ Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981, and
(b)
whether or not a person is also charged with a non-scheduled offence.