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MAGISTRATES' COURTS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 33

Offences committed on boundaries or on journeys: offences begun in one county court division and completed in another.

33.(1) Except as otherwise provided by this section, a complaint charging a
summary offence or an indictable offence with which the court has decided to
deal summarily under this Act or any other enactment shall be heard and
determined by a court of summary jurisdiction.

(2) A resident magistrate, if satisfied that a person charged with a
summary offence or with an indictable offence which he has decided to deal
with summarily in accordance with this Act or any other enactment is unable to
give bail for his appearance before a court of summary jurisdiction, may hear
and determine the complaint out of petty sessions.

(3) Any justice of the peace sitting out of petty sessions may hear and
determine a complaint against an adult charging a summary offence specified in
Part II of Schedule 2 where the accused consents to be so dealt with.

(4) Procedure before a resident magistrate or other justice of the peace
sitting out of petty sessions shall be as before a
court of summary jurisdiction and

(a)a resident magistrate or other justice of the peace so sitting may in
relation to any matter which he has jurisdiction to hear and determine under
subsection (2) or, as the case may be, subsection (3), exercise all the powers
of a court of summary jurisdiction; and

(b)orders made by a resident magistrate or other justice of the peace so
sitting shall have effect as orders made by a court of summary jurisdiction
sitting for the petty sessions district for which the resident magistrate or
justice of the peace acted.[

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