{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-northern-ireland-order-2003/article-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-northern-ireland-order-2003/article-27.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/2003/1247",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-northern-ireland-order-2003",
  "path": "article/27",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Period of remand",
  "text": "(1) In paragraph (2) of Article 47 of the Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 (NI 26) (period of remand in custody)—\n(a) for sub-paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—\n“(a) in the case where—\n(i) the accused is before the court and he consents, or\n(ii) the court has previously remanded the accused in custody for the same offence; or\n(iii) the accused is already detained under a custodial sentence, twenty-eight days;” ;\n(b) for the words sub-paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the words sub-paragraph (a)(iii).\n(2) Paragraph (3) of that Article shall cease to have effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2003/1247/article/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:40:13.732375+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}