{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-emergency-provisions-act-1987-repealed-2781991/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-emergency-provisions-act-1987-repealed-2781991/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1987/30",
  "legislation_title": "Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1987 (repealed 27.8.1991)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-emergency-provisions-act-1987-repealed-2781991",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Maximum period of remand in custody in case of scheduled offences.",
  "text": "The following section shall be inserted after section 3 of the 1978 Act—\n“ Maximum period of remand in custody in case of scheduled offences.\n3A 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.”",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1987/30/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:52:34.230802+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."
}