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MAGISTRATES' COURTS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 159

Objections as to want of form or variance between complaint etc. and evidence adduced.

159.(1) A warrant issued in connection with proceedings before a magistrates'
court by a resident magistrate or other justice of the peace shall remain in
force until it is executed or until it is withdrawn by the person who issued
it, or if he is unable to act, by any resident magistrate.

(2) Notwithstanding any other enactment, any warrant for arrest or search or
of commitment or distress lawfully issued in connection with proceedings
before a magistrates' court may be executed in any part of Northern Ireland
and it may be executed either by any person to whom the warrant was originally
directed or ... by any constable.

(3) Where the person against whom any such warrant or his property, as the
case may be, is to be found in Northern Ireland, the provisions of the
Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act 1851 relating to the certifying and endorsing of
warrants shall not apply.

(4) Any warrant [for the arrest of any person or any warrant of commitment
lawfully issued] in connection with proceedings before a magistrates' court
may be executed by any constable at any time notwithstanding that the warrant
is not in his possession at that time, but the warrant shall, on demand of the
person arrested [or committed], be shown to him as soon as practicable.

(5) The issue or execution of any warrant for arrest or search or of
commitment in connection with proceedings before a magistrates' court shall be
as effectual on Sunday as on any other day.

Validity of documents issued in proceedings.



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