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TREATMENT OF OFFENDERS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 20

Court which shall deal with a suspended sentence or order for detention.

20.(1) An offender may be dealt with in respect of a
suspended sentence or order for detention by [the Crown Court or], where the
sentence or order for detention was passed or made by a magistrates' court, by
any magistrates' court before which he appears or is brought.

Subs.(2) rep. by 1978 c.23 s.122(2) sch.7

(3) Where an offender is convicted by a magistrates' court of an offence for
which the court has power or would, but for section 1, have power to sentence
him to imprisonment and the court is satisfied that the offence was committed
during the operational period of a suspended sentence or order for detention
passed or made by [the Crown Court]

(a)the court may commit him in custody or on bail to [the Crown Court] ... to
be dealt with ... in respect of that sentence or order; and

(b)if it does not, shall furnish written notice of the conviction to the
appropriate officer of the court by which the
suspended sentence or order for detention was passed or made.

Subs.(4) rep. by 1978 c.23 s.122(2) sch.7

(5) For the purposes of this section and section 21 a
suspended sentence or order for detention passed or made on or in relation to
an offender on appeal shall be treated as having been passed or made by the
court by which he was originally [tried].


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