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INDICTABLE OFFENCES ACT 1848 - SECT 14

Irish warrants may be backed in Scotland.

14. If any person against whom a warrant shall be issued by any justice of the
peace for any county or place within ... Ireland, or by any judge of [the High
Court of Justice in Northern Ireland] or [the Crown Court] in ... Ireland, for
any crime or offence against the laws of ... Ireland, shall escape, go into,
reside, or be, or be supposed or suspected to be, in any place in Scotland, it
shall be lawful for the [sheriff principal or sheriff], or any justice of the
peace, of the county or place where such person or persons shall go into,
reside, or be, or be supposed or suspected to be, to indorse (K.) the said
warrant in manner herein-before mentioned, or to the like effect; which
warrant so indorsed shall be a sufficient authority to the person or persons
bringing such warrant, and to all persons to whom such warrant was originally
directed, and also to all sheriffs officers, constables, and other peace
officers of the county or place where such warrant shall be so indorsed, to
execute the same within the county or place where it shall have been so
indorsed, by apprehending the person against whom such warrant shall have been
granted, and to convey him into the county or place in ... Ireland where the
justice or justices who first issued the said warrant shall have jurisdiction
in that behalf, and to carry him before such justice or justices, or before
any other justice or justices of the peace of and for the same county or
place, to be there dealt with according to law, and which said justice or
justices are hereby authorized and required thereupon to proceed in such and
the same manner as if the said offender had been apprehended within his or
their jurisdiction.

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