# Miscellaneous Transferred Excise Duties Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 (repealed), Section 63: Provisions as to imprisonment.

Extent: N.I.

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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1972/11/section/63 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/miscellaneous-transferred-excise-duties-act-northern-ireland-1972-repealed/section-63
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