# The Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981, Article 134: Provision where person committed for trial about to abscond


(1) Where a person has entered into a recognizance to appear before a magistrates' court or been committed for trial on bail, a surety for such person may make a complaint in writing and upon oath before a justice of the peace that he suspects that such person is about to abscond for the purpose of evading that appearance or trial and the justice may issue a warrant for the arrest of that person and requiring him to be brought before a resident magistrate.
(2) The resident magistrate before whom a person is brought under paragraph (1) may commit such person to prison until his next appearance before a magistrates' court or his trial or until he finds another surety and the recognizance entered into by the original surety shall be discharged.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1981/1675/article/134 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-134
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