Section 5 Maximum period of remand in custody in case of scheduled offences.

Notwithstanding Article 47(2) and (3) of the M1Magistrates’ Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981, the period for which a person charged with a scheduled offence (or with a scheduled offence and another offence which is not a scheduled offence) may be remanded in custody by a magistrates’ court shall be a period of not more than twenty-eight days beginning with the day following that on which he is so remanded.