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Changes and effects yet to be applied to Article 127:
- Instrument am (prosp) by S.I. 1994/2795 (N.I.) arts.3(4) 25
- Instrument am (prosp) by S.I. 1994/2795 (N.I.) art.3(5) Sch.1
- Instrument am (prosp) by S.I. 1994/2795 (N.I.) art.5(2)
- Instrument mod (prosp) by 1994 c. 33 s. 91(3)
- Instrument revoked by 1998 c. 41 s.74(1) (3) Sch.12 para.5 Sch.14 Pt.I
Changes and effects yet to be applied to the whole Order associated Parts and Chapters:
- Act amended by 1996 c. 25 s.79 Sch.4 para 30
- Act amended by 1996 c. 25 s.79 Sch.4 para 30
- Order applied by S.R. 2007/199 reg. 19(6)
- Order applied (with modifications) by S.I. 2018/1125 reg. 8 (This amendment not applied to legislation.gov.uk. S.I. 2018/1125, reg. 8 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of Private International Law (Implementation of Agreements) Act 2020 (c. 24), s. 4(3), Sch. 5 para. 4(4))
- Order power to modify conferred by 2015 c. 9 (N.I.) s. 24(5)(a) (see s 24(6))
Whole provisions yet to be inserted into this Order (including any effects on those provisions):
- Sch.6 Pt.I paras.18 19 revoked by 1995 c. 21 s. 314(1) Sch.12 (Amendment could not be applied. The relevant affected text is not available on legislation.gov)
- Sch.6 Pt.I para.5 revoked by S.I. 1995/756 art.15 Sch.
- Sch. 6 para. 128-130 repealed by 2011 c. 15 (N.I.) Sch. 3 Pt. 2 (Amendment could not be applied. The relevant affected text is not available on legislation.gov)
- Sch. 6 para. 125 repealed by 2011 c. 16 (N.I.) Sch. 5 (Amendment could not be applied. The relevant affected text is not available on legislation.gov)
- Sch. 6 Pt. 3 para. 170 repealed by S.I. 2007/916 (N.I.) Sch. 8 Pt. 1 (Amendment could not be applied. The relevant affected text is not available on legislation.gov)
- Sch. 6 para. 144 repealed by 2006 c. 48 Sch. 15 Pt. 4 (Amendment could not be applied. The relevant affected text is not available on legislation.gov)
- Sch. 6 para. 21 repealed by 2013 c. 22 Sch. 11 para. 210 (Amendment could not be applied. The relevant affected text is not available on legislation.gov)
- Sch. 6 para. 25 repealed by 2013 c. 22 Sch. 11 para. 210 (Amendment could not be applied. The relevant affected text is not available on legislation.gov)
- art. 29A excluded by 1975 c. 59, s. 4(3) (as substituted) by 2015 c. 9 (N.I.) s. 7(6)
- art. 29A inserted by 2015 c. 9 (N.I.) s. 7(2)
- art. 34(1A)-(1E) inserted by 2015 c. 9 (N.I.) s. 8(2)
- art. 140(2ZA) inserted by 2016 c. 18 (N.I.) Sch. 10 para. 16
Power to bind overN.I.
127.—(1) Subject to this Article, a magistrates' court may order a person to enter into a recognizance to keep the peace or to be of good behaviour or to keep the peace and be of good behaviour—
(a)upon a complaint that such person should be called upon to show cause why he should not be ordered to be so bound; or
(b)upon convicting a person of an offence and in lieu of or in addition to any sentence which the court may lawfully impose; or
(c)in the case of a person present before such court without any formal application to the court to make such order.
(2) The period during which a person may be ordered to be bound by a recognizance under paragraph (1) shall not exceed two years.
(3) A complaint under paragraph (1)(a) may be laid before a justice of the peace F1....
(4) Subject to paragraph (3), a summons to the person against whom such complaint is made or a warrant for his arrest (whether in the first instance or in default of appearance) may in all respects be issued as if the complaint were one alleging the commission of a summary offence.
(5) Without prejudice to Article 18(4)—
(a)proceedings upon the hearing of a complaint under this Article shall be conducted, and
(b)the person against whom the complaint is made and such witnesses as he may call may give evidence and be cross-examined,
in the same manner as in proceedings for a summary offence and the court may remand such person, whether in custody or on bail, for the same period and subject to the same conditions as in such last-mentioned proceedings.
(6) Any order against such person for the payment of costs made in proceedings under this Article shall be enforceable in the same manner as an order for the payment of a sum adjudged to be paid by a conviction of a magistrates' court.
(7) If any person ordered to enter into a recognizance by a magistrates' court under this Article fails to comply with the order, the court may commit him to prison for a period not exceeding six months or until he complies with the order, whichever is the shorter.
(8) Nothing in this Article shall derogate from the provisions of[F2 Article 36(1) of the Criminal Justice (Children) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998] or section 7(1) of the Probation Act (Northern Ireland) 1950 or any other enactment authorising a magistrates' court to require a person to give security for good behaviour or for keeping the peace.
F1Words in art. 127(3) repealed (31.10.2016) by Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 9), s. 106(2), Sch. 1 para. 86(25), Sch. 9 Pt. 1 (with Sch. 8 para. 1); S.R. 2016/387, art. 2(k)(m) (with art. 3)
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