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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/miscellaneous-transferred-excise-duties-act-northern-ireland-1972-repealed/section-63",
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  "legislation": "apni/1972/11",
  "legislation_title": "Miscellaneous Transferred Excise Duties Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/miscellaneous-transferred-excise-duties-act-northern-ireland-1972-repealed",
  "path": "section/63",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "63",
  "heading": "Provisions as to imprisonment.",
  "text": "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.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1972/11/section/63",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:29:07.942531+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}