Paragraph 18

After that section insert—

“ Power of court of record to bind over

103A

(1)

Any court of record in Northern Ireland having a criminal jurisdiction has, as ancillary to that jurisdiction, the power—

(a)

to bind over to keep the peace; or

(b)

to bind over to be of good behaviour,

a person who or whose case is before the court by requiring him to enter into his own recognisances or to find sureties (or both) and committing him to prison if he does not comply.

(2)

A magistrates’ court is not to be regarded as a court of record for the purposes of subsection (1).”