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Article 2 Application of section 128A of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 to certain areas

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Section 128A of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (remands in custody for more than eight days) shall have effect, in relation to any accused person who has attained the age of 17, in all those petty sessions areas, within the meaning of section 4 of the Justices of the Peace Actf1, in which at the date of the coming into force of this Order the said section 128A does not already have effect by virtue of the 1989 Order.

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1979 c. 55, as amended by section 12 of the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51).