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  "legislation_title": "Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978",
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  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where a person subject to a sentence is admitted to bail pending an appeal under section 41, the time during which he is at large after being so admitted shall be disregarded in computing the term of his sentence.\n(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (1), any sentence passed on an appeal under section 41 in substitution for another sentence shall, unless the the Supreme Court or the court below otherwise directs, begin to run from the time when that other sentence would have begun to run.",
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      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 5 substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 40(4), 148(1), Sch. 9 para. 30(8)(b); S. I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)"
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