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MAGISTRATES' COURTS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 113

Enforcement of orders for payment of money other than periodical payments.

113.(1) Where imprisonment has been imposed on any person by the conviction or
order of a magistrates' court in default of payment of any sum or for want of
sufficient distress to satisfy such sum, then, on the payment of the sum to a
person authorised to receive it, together with the costs and charges, if any,
of the commitment and distress, the order shall cease to have effect; and if
the person has been committed to custody he shall be released unless he is in
custody for some other cause.

(2) Where, after a period of imprisonment has been imposed on any person in
default of payment of any sum adjudged to be paid by the conviction or order
of a magistrates' court or for want of sufficient distress to satisfy such a
sum, payment of part of the sum is made to a person authorised to receive it,
the period of imprisonment shall, subject to subsection (3), be reduced by
such number of days as bears to the total number of days in that period less
one day the same proportion as the amount so paid bears to so much of the said
sum, and the costs of any distress levied to satisfy that sum, as was due at
the time the period of imprisonment was imposed.

(3) In calculating the reduction required under subsection (2) any fraction of
a day shall be left out of account.

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