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MAGISTRATES' COURTS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 62

Fixing sum adjudged to be paid by a conviction with regard to means of offender.

62.(1) A magistrates' court shall have power to reduce the amount of any fine
or other pecuniary penalty which it has power to impose for an offence under
any enactment to which this section applies, notwithstanding that the amount
of the fine or other pecuniary penalty is prescribed under any such enactment.

(2) This section applies to any enactment in force upon 1st January 1946,
other than an enactment relating to Her Majesty's revenue under the control of
the Commissioners of Inland Revenue or the Commissioners of Customs and
Excise, except in so far as that enactment has been adapted and applied in
relation to duties and taxes in respect of the imposing, charging, levying and
collection of which the Parliament of Northern Ireland has, under section 21
of the Government of Ireland Act 1920, power to make laws.

(3) Nothing in this section shall prejudice or affect the operation of
section 34(2) of the Finance Act 1935 or [section 150(2) of the Customs and
Excise Management Act 1979], (which relate to the enactments excluded by
subsection (2)).

S.63 rep. by 1980 NI 6 art.13 sch.2

1935 c.24



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