Section 42 Definitions for judicial purposes.

In an enactment the expression—

• “F1Court of Judicature” shall mean the Court of Judicature of Northern Ireland;

• “Court of Appeal” or “High Court of Appeal” shall mean Her Majesty's Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland;

• “High Court” shall mean Her Majesty's High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland;

• “Court of Criminal Appeal” shall mean the Court of Criminal Appeal in Northern Ireland F2...;

• “court of assize” shall mean a court of assize, a court of oyer and terminer and a court of gaol delivery or any of them and shall include a court held in and for the county of the City of Belfast by virtue of a commission of oyer and terminer or general gaol delivery;

• F3“Lands Tribunal” shall mean the Lands Tribunal for Northern Ireland;

• F4“Crown Court” shall mean Her Majesty's Crown Court in Northern Ireland;

• “county court” shall mean a county court held F5... under the County Courts F6(Northern Ireland) Order 1980M1;

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• F8“court of summary jurisdiction” or “magistrates' court” shall have the meaning assigned to it by Article 2(2) of the Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.

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In an enactment the expression—

• “Lord Chief Justice” shall mean the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland;

• “Chancery Judge” shall mean the Judge of the High Court to whom the business and matters arising in the chancery jurisdiction of that court are for the time being assigned;

• “county court judge” shall include ... a recorder ...; and

• “Probate Judge” shall mean the Judge of the High Court to whom probate business and matters are for the time being assigned.

In an enactment the expression—

• “appeal summarily” shall mean appeal, in accordance with magistrates' courts rules, to a court of summary jurisdiction;

• Definition rep. by 1975 NI 7; 1978 c. 23

• “committed for trial” shall mean committed by a court, judge, resident magistrate, F10... F11... or other authority having power to commit a person in custody with a view to his trial, and shall include committed on bail upon a recognizance to appear and stand trial before a judge and jury;

• F12“standard scale” means the standard scale provided by Article 5 of the Fines and Penalties (Northern Ireland) Order 1984;

• “statutory maximum” means the prescribed sum within the meaning of Article 4 of the Fines and Penalties (Northern Ireland) Order 1984.

• “Summary Jurisdiction Acts” shall mean the statutory provisions for the time being in force in Northern Ireland in relation to summary jurisdiction;

• “summary conviction” shall mean conviction subject to and in accordance with the Summary Jurisdiction Acts.

In an enactment the expression “industrial tribunal” means a tribunal established under Article 3 of the Industrial Tribunals (Northern Ireland) Order 1996.