Section 69 Maximum period of remand in custody.

Northern Ireland

(1)

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 remanded.

(2)

Subsection (1) has effect—

(a)

notwithstanding Article 47(2) F1. . . of the M1Magistrates’ Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981, and

(b)

whether or not a person is also charged with a non-scheduled offence.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in s. 69(2)(a) repealed (28.7.2003) by The Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1247 (N.I. 13)), art. 36(2), Sch. 2; S.R. 2003/352, art. 2

Marginal citations

M1: S.I. 1981/1675 (N.I. 26).