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1954 c.33 43.(1) A magistrates' court which adjourns a preliminary investigation of an indictable offence and remands the accused in custody may, if satisfied that it is desirable in the interests of justice or security to do so and that the accused would not thereby suffer hardship, order that the adjourned investigation shall be held at a time and place specified in the order being a place within the same petty sessions district as the prison to which the person charged [or any person with whom he is charged in the same proceedings] is remanded. (2) A magistrates' court before whom any adjourned investigation is held, if satisfied as aforesaid, may, without prejudice to any other power exercisable by it, order that such investigation shall be adjourned to (a)a place within the same petty sessions district as that in which the investigation was begun; or (b)a place within the same petty sessions district as the prison to which the person charged [or any person with whom he is charged in the same proceedings] is further remanded. (3) Where an order is made under this section the adjourned investigation shall be held at the time and place specified in the order and may be so held before the magistrates' court by whom the investigation is adjourned or before a court acting for the petty sessions district in which the place to which the investigation is adjourned is situated and where the adjourned investigation takes place before such last-mentioned court, the complaint and any depositions and recognizances already taken in the matter shall be deemed for all purposes to have been made or taken by or before such last-mentioned court. [(3A) Without prejudice to subsections (1), (2) and (3), a magistrates' court may, if satisfied as mentioned in subsection (1), adjourn any preliminary investigation or preliminary enquiry of an indictable offence or any adjourned investigation or enquiry to another magistrates' court having jurisdiction to conduct a preliminary investigation or, as the case may be, a preliminary enquiry into such an offence and in the case of an adjourned investigation or enquiry, the complaint and any depositions and recognizances already taken in, or notices and documents furnished in respect of, the matter shall be deemed for all purposes to have been made or taken by or before, or furnished to the clerk of, the last-mentioned court.] (4) Where an investigation has been adjourned under this section, the place to which the investigation has been adjourned shall, without prejudice to section 7 of the Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1945, be deemed, for all purposes incidental upon the prosecution, trial and punishment of the offender, to be the place in which the offence was committed.
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