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MAGISTRATES' COURTS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 65

1979 c.2

65.(1) Without prejudice to any other enactment, where a magistrates' court
has power to impose imprisonment, the court in lieu of imposing imprisonment
may, subject to subsection (2), order the offender to be detained within the
precincts of the court, or at any constabulary station, till such hour, not
later than eight in the evening on the day on which he is convicted, as the
court may direct.

(2) The court shall, in making an order under this section, take into
consideration the distance between the place of detention and the offender's
abode (if his abode is known to, or ascertainable by, the court) and shall not
make any such order of detention under this section as will deprive the
offender of a reasonable opportunity of returning to his abode on the day on
which the order of detention is made.

1972 c.11



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