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ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1954 - SECT 13

Non-availability of suitable courthouse accommodation.

13.(1) Where for any reason suitable accommodation is not for the time being
available for the purposes of a particular sitting of any court, the judge of
that court or the person who is to act as the judge of that court may, at any
time after it comes to his knowledge that such accommodation is not or will
not be so available, direct that sitting to be held at some other convenient
place ... at which suitable accommodation is available.

(2) Where during the sitting of any court accommodation ceases to be available
or becomes unsuitable for the purposes of such sitting, the judge of the court
may adjourn the remainder of the sitting to any other convenient place ... at
which suitable accommodation is available.

(3) A judge exercising any power of adjournment conferred by this section may
give directions as to the manner in which and the persons to whom notice of
such adjournment is to be given and it shall be the duty of all persons to
whom such directions are given to comply therewith.

(4) Any judgment delivered or decree or other order made and any other action
taken at a sitting adjourned or directed to be held elsewhere under this
section shall have the same force and effect as if made at a sitting which had
not been so adjourned or directed to be held elsewhere.

(5) References in this section to a judge include, in relation to courts of
summary jurisdiction, references to a resident magistrate.

Subs.(6) rep. by SI 1973/2163 art.14(2) sch.6; 1978 c.23 s.122(2) sch.7 Pt.II


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