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Article 27 Period of remand

(1)

In paragraph (2) of Article 47 of the Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 (NI 26) (period of remand in custody)—

(a)

for sub-paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

“(a)

in the case where—

(i)

the accused is before the court and he consents, or

(ii)

the court has previously remanded the accused in custody for the same offence; or

(iii)

the accused is already detained under a custodial sentence, twenty-eight days;” ;

(b)

for the words sub-paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the words sub-paragraph (a)(iii).

(2)

Paragraph (3) of that Article shall cease to have effect.