Section 2 Maximum period of remand in custody in case of scheduled offences.

The following section shall be inserted after section 3 of the 1978 Act—

“ Maximum period of remand in custody in case of scheduled offences.

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Notwithstanding Article 47(2) and (3) of the Magistrates’ Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981, the period for which a person charged with a scheduled offence may be remanded in custody by a magistrates’ court shall be a period of not more than 28 days beginning with the day following that on which he is so remanded.”