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MAGISTRATES' COURTS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 162

1851 c.93

162.(1) A magistrates' court may at any time adjourn proceedings before it.

[(1A) Where a court of summary jurisdiction adjourns the hearing of a
complaint any day on which a resident magistrate resumes the sitting to hear
that complaint shall be deemed to be a day directed for the holding of
petty sessions.]

(2) The court may when adjourning either fix the time and place at which the
proceedings are to be resumed or, unless it is remanding a person in custody
or on bail, leave the time and place to be determined later by the court; but
the proceedings shall not be resumed at that time and place unless the court
is satisfied that the parties and witnesses had adequate notice thereof.

(3) Persons whose attendance has been required by summons shall, without the
issue of further summons, attend on the day to which the hearing is adjourned.

(4) Where a magistrates' court is for any reason unable to sit at the time
appointed for such sitting, the clerk of petty sessions may adjourn the
sitting and any summons, process, notice or recognizance requiring or
conditioned for the appearance of a person at such sitting shall be deemed to
be varied so as to require the appearance of that person at the time and place
to which the sitting is so adjourned.

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