Article 35 Further provisions as to issue of certificates
For the purposes of this Part, the expressions “defence” and “trial” shall be taken as relating not only to proceedings on the issue of the defendant's guilt, but also to proceedings on the question of the sentence to be passed or order to be made; and any power to grant a criminal aid certificate to a person returned for trial or to a person charged with an offence before a magistrates' court shall be exercisable after as well as before that person has pleaded or has been found guilty.
Notes on the whole Order
Textual amendments
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Order repealed (1.11.2003 for the repeals of arts.18(1)-(7), 19, 20.3.2006 the repeal of art. 23, 1.4.2015 for the repeal of Pt. 2 to the extent that it remains in operation, otherwise prosp.) by Access to Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/435), arts. 1(2), 49(5), Sch. 5 (with transitional provisions and savings in art. 48, Sch. 3); S.R. 2003/344, art. 4, Sch. 2; S.R. 2006/27, art. 3; S.R. 2015/194, art. 2, Sch. (with transitional provisions and savings in art. 3)
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functions transferred by SI 1982/159
Notes on Part III
Modifications
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Pt. 3 transfer of functions (1.4.2015) by Legal Aid and Coroners‘ Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 11), ss. 1(2)(a)(3)(4), 12(1) (with ss. 2(3), 9, Sch. 1 para. 3(3)); S.R. 2015/193, art. 2(a)