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MAGISTRATES' COURTS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 61 

Power of court to sentence person convicted by another court in same county court division.

61.(1) Without prejudice to any other enactment, where a magistrates' court
has power to impose imprisonment for a summary offence and, apart from this
section, has not authority to impose a fine for that offence, the court, if it
thinks fit, may, subject to subsection (2), instead of imposing a sentence of
imprisonment impose a fine not exceeding [#200].

(2) An offender shall not in default of payment of such fine be liable to
imprisonment under section 102 for any greater term than that to which he is
liable under the enactment authorising the imprisonment.

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