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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-emergency-provisions-act-1996-repealed/section-5",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/22",
  "legislation_title": "Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1996 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-emergency-provisions-act-1996-repealed",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Maximum period of remand in custody in case of scheduled offences.",
  "text": "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 (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.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/1675 (N.I. 26)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/22/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:32:09.613224+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."
}