# Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1978 (Repealed 27.8.1991), Section 1: Preliminary enquiry into scheduled offences.

Extent: N.I.

(1) Where in any proceedings before a magistrates’ court for a scheduled offence (not being an extra-territorial offence as defined in section 1(3) of the Criminal Jurisdiction Act 1975) the prosecutor requests the court to conduct a preliminary enquiry into the offence under the Magistrates’ Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981, the court shall, notwithstanding anything in Article 31 of that Order of 1981, conduct a preliminary enquiry into the offence unless the court is of opinion that in the interests of justice a preliminary investigation should be conducted into the offence under that Order of 1981.
(2) Where in any proceedings a person charged with a scheduled offence is also charged with another offence which is not a scheduled offence, that other offence shall be treated as a scheduled offence for the purposes of subsection (1) above.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/5/section/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-emergency-provisions-act-1978-repealed-2781991/section-1
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