MAGISTRATES' COURTS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964

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MAGISTRATES' COURTS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 31



31.(1) Subject to the provisions of this Part, a magistrates' court for a
county [court division] may conduct a preliminary investigation into an
indictable offence or hear and determine a complaint charging a
summary offence, if in any such case

(a)the offence was committed in the county [court division]; or

(b)the offence was committed elsewhere than in the county [court division] and
the defendant is or is resident (or in the case of a body corporate has its
registered office or principal place of business) within the county [court
division]; or

(c)it appears necessary or expedient with a view to the better administration
of justice that the person charged with the offence should be tried or jointly
tried with, or in the same place as, some other person who is charged with an
offence and who is in custody or is being or is to be proceeded against within
that county [court division]: or

(d)the court under this or any other enactment or otherwise has jurisdiction
to deal with the offence.

[(1A) A magistrates' court for a county court division having jurisdiction to
hear a complaint charging a person with an offence may hear and determine a
complaint charging that person with a summary offence committed in any othe
county court division.]

(2) A resident magistrate exercising the powers conferred by sections 52 and
53 shall have jurisdiction to try summarily an indictable offence in any case
in which under subsection (1) he would have jurisdiction to conduct a
preliminary investigation into the offence.

(3) Nothing in this Act shall deprive a court in Northern Ireland of any
jurisdiction to deal with any offence, whether committed in the United Kingdom
or elsewhere, as to which the court has jurisdiction at the passing of
this Act.

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MAGISTRATES' COURTS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 31