# Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1996 (repealed), Section 5: Maximum period of remand in custody in case of scheduled offences.

Extent: N.I.

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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/22/section/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-emergency-provisions-act-1996-repealed/section-5
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