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MAGISTRATES' COURTS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 13

13.(1) A resident magistrate sitting alone may, as well as exercising any
function which is conferred by any enactment upon a resident magistrate or
upon a justice of the peace, exercise any function which under any enactment
may be exercised by two or more justices of the peace or which under any
enactment (other than an enactment referred to in section 2(2)) may be
exercised by two or more resident magistrates.

(2) A justice of the peace other than a resident magistrate may not sit in
petty sessions and ... may exercise only such functions as are conferred upon
a justice of the peace by the commission of the peace or under any enactment
(including this Act) commencing on or after 1st January 1936 or under any
enactment commencing before that day included in Part I of Schedule 2.

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