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SUMMARY JURISDICTION AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1958 - SECT 16

Recognizances before governors or deputy governors of prisons.

16.(1) Where any provision of the Summary Jurisdiction Acts (Northern Ireland)
or of any other enactment operates to require or authorise any recognizance to
be entered into before a resident magistrate or justice of the peace such
recognizance may, in relation to any person who is in custody in a prison, be
entered into before the governor or deputy governor of that prison.

(2) A recognizance entered into under the preceding sub-section shall, as soon
as practicable, be transmitted to the clerk of the petty sessions district
from which the person in custody was committed to prison.

(3) In this section "prison" has the same meaning as in the Prison Act
(Northern Ireland), 1953.

S.17 amends s.25 of 1953 c.14 (NI)

S.18 rep. in pt. by 1969 c.16 (NI) s.31(2) sch.3 Pt.II, residue amends s.4 of
1824 c.83. S.19(1) rep. by 1971 c.13 (NI) s.86(5) sch.12 Pt.I; subs.(2) amends
s.9 of 1908 c.24. Ss.2022 rep. by 1964 c.21 (NI) s.172 sch.7. S.23 rep. by
1968 c.34 (NI) s.181(3) sch.8. S.24 rep. by 1964 c.21 (NI) s.172 sch.7. S.25
rep. by 1970 c.2 (NI) s.192 sch.5. S.26 rep. by 1967 c.38 (NI) s.58 sch.3;
1970 c.2 (NI) s.192 sch.5


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