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MAGISTRATES' COURTS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 69

Disposal of non pecuniary forfeitures.

69.(1) Without prejudice to the provisions of any other enactment, any person
who attempts to commit, or incites, ..., another person to commit, any
summary offence shall be guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction
and shall be liable to be proceeded against, convicted and punished as if he
had committed the summary offence.

(2) Where a person is charged before a magistrates' court with a
summary offence, and it appears to the court that the person charged did not
commit the offence charged but that he was guilty of attempting to commit that
offence, the court may convict him of attempting to commit that offence and
may punish him in the same manner as if he had been charged with attempting to
commit that offence.

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