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Section 63 Provisions as to imprisonment.

Northern Ireland

Where under any enactment a court of summary jurisdiction has power to order a person to be imprisoned in respect of the non-payment of a fine, or of the default of a sufficient distress to satisfy the amount of that fine, for a term in addition and succession to a term of imprisonment imposed for the same offence as the fine, then, in relation to a sentence for an offence under this Act, the aggregate of those terms of imprisonment may, notwithstanding anything in any such enactment, be any period not exceeding fifteen months.

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

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Act repealed (17.8.2011) by Wildlife and Natural Environment Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 15), ss. 39(2), 40(1), Sch. 3 Pt. 2; S.R. 2011/285, art. 2, Sch.

Notes on Part VIII

Textual amendments

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1957 c.19 (NI)