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MAGISTRATES' COURTS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 134

134.(1) Where a person has [entered into a recognizance to appear before a
magistrates' court or] been committed for trial on bail, a surety for such
person may make a complaint in writing and upon oath before a justice of the
peace that he suspects that such person is about to abscond for the purpose of
evading [that appearance or] trial and the justice may thereupon issue a
warrant for the arrest of that person and requiring him to be brought before a
resident magistrate.

(2) The resident magistrate before whom a person is brought under subsection
(1) may, if he thinks fit, commit such person to prison until his [next
appearance before a magistrates' court or his] trial or until he finds another
surety and ... the recognizance entered into by the original surety shall be
discharged.

Duty of Constabulary where person arrested without warrant is not released.

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