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The Gazette Published Dp fluthoritp

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1st, 1946.

OFFICE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL OF county of Londonderry, the county of the City of NORTHERN , BELFAST. Londonderry, and the county of Tyrone, for the a&th October, 1946. purposes of the next Winter Assizes and of this Order, shall be united together and form one A meeting of the Privy Council of Northern county under the name of the Northern Irfland Ireland was held at Government House, Hills- Winter Assize County. borough, to-day, at which the following were present: Place for Holdfmg the Assizes. His Excellency the Governor of . 2. The next Winter Assizes for the said Winter The Right Hon. Sir Basil Brooke, B,t., M.P. Assize County shall be held in the Court House of The Right Hon. J. E. Warnock, M.P. the County of Antrim, at Belfast, in the County of The Right Hon. W. Lowry, M.P. the City of Belfast. ' His Excellency signified his approval to the Jurisdiction. Northern Ireland Winter Assize Order, 1946, and to a Warrant for the issue of a Commission for 3. The Court at the Winter Assizes at Belfast the Northern Ireland Winter Assizes, 1946, fixing shall have jurisdiction to try any prisoner committed the Court House of the County of Antrim, at for trial at Assizes or Quarter Sessions, and also Belfast, in the County of the City of Belfast, as the any person bound by recognizance to surrender and venue for the forthcoming Winter Assizes. take his or her trial at Assizes or Quarter Sessions W. N. McWILLIAM, in the said Winter Assize County, who may be Deputy Clerk of .the Council. brought before it, and any indictment which has been heretofore found by any in any of the aforesaid counties, the trial of which stands post- poned, and any person against whom depositions THE NORTHERN IRELAND WINTER have been taken, although not committed for trial ASSIZE ORDER, 1946. against whom a bill of indictment shall be preferred by the authority of His Majesty's Attorney-General By the Governor in the Privy Council of Northern for Northern Ireland for any indictable offence Ireland. committed within the said Winter Assize County, GRANVILLE and shall have the same powers with, respect to the trial of and passing sentence upon such prisoner or NORTHERN IRELAND WINTER ASSIZES, person, and the trial of such, indictment, as a Court 1946. of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol In pursuance of the Winter Assizes Act, 1876, and Delivery would have had at the Assizes in the county of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act (Ireland), where, but for the said Acts and Orders and this 1877, and of the Government of Ireland Act, 1920, Order, such prisoner or person or such indictment and the Orders made by His Majesty in Council would have been tried; and for the purpose of giving under the last-mentioned Act, and of all other effect to any -sentence, whether it be a sentence of power's in that behalf, I, William Spencer, Earl capital punishment, or of penal servitude, or of Granville, Knight Commander of the Royal Vic- imprisonment, shall have power to commit such torian Order, Companion of the Most Honourable prisoner or person to the prison to which he- or she Order of the Bath, Companion of the Dis- would have been committed had he or she been tried tinguished Service Order, Vice-Admiral, Governor at an Assizes in the county where, but for the said of Northern Ireland, by and with the advice and Acts and Orders and this Order, he or she would consent of His Majesty's Privy Council in have been tried there to be dealt with according to Northern Ireland, do hereby order as follows : law; and any indictment found by the Grand Jury at the said Winter Assizes, the trial of which shall stand Definition ,of the Winter Assize County. postponed, shall be a good and valid indictment to 1. The county of Antrim, the county of Armagh, be tried at any future Court of Oyer and Terminer the county of Down, the county of Fermanagh, the and General Gaol Delivery or Quarter Sessions for