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Section 7 Venue in indictable offences.

F1(1)

A person charged with the commission in Northern Ireland of any indictable offence [F2 or with the commission of an indictable offence cognisable under the law of Northern Ireland] may be proceeded against, indicted, tried and punished in any …F3 place in which he was apprehended, or is in custody on a charge for the offence or has appeared in answer to a summons lawfully issued charging the offence, as if the offence had been committed in that … place, and the offence shall, for all purposes incidental to or consequential on the prosecution, trial or punishment thereof, be deemed to have been committed in that … place:

  • Proviso rep. by 1978 c.23

  • Subs.(2) rep. by 1978 c.23

(3)

Nothing in this section shall affect the laws relating to the government of His Majesty's naval, military or air forces.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

1967 c.18 (NI); 1964 c.21 (NI)

F2

1967 c.18 (NI)

F3

1978 c.23