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FRIDAY, 25th OCTOBER, 1957

Office of the Privy Council of Northern , Definition of the Winter Assize County Belfast. 1. The county of Antrim, the county of Armagh, 23rd October, 1957. and county of Down, the county of Fermanagh, the A meeting of the Privy Council of Northern Ire- county of Londonderry, the county of the City of land was held at Government House, Hillsborough, Londonderry, and the county of Tyrone, for the to-day, at which the following were present:— purposes of the next Winter Assizes and of this His Excellency the Governor of ; Order, shall be united together and form one county The Right Honourable W. W. B. Topping, M.P.; under the name of the Northern Ireland Winter The Right Honourable W. B. Maginess, M.P.; Assize County. The Right Honourable Lord Justice Black; Place for Holding the Assizes The Right Honourable Lord Justice Curran. 2. The next Winter Assizes for the said Winter His Excellency signified his approval to the Nor- Assize County shall be held in the Court House of thern Ireland Winter Assize Order, 1957, and to a the County of Antrim at Belfast. Warrant for the issue of a Commission for the Northern Ireland Winter Assizes, 1957, fixing the Jurisdiction Court House of the County of Antrim at Belfast as 3. The Court at the Winter Assizes at Belfast the venue for the forthcoming Winter Assizes. shall have jurisdiction to try any prisoner committed A. J. KELLY, for trial at Assizes or Quarter Sessions, and also Clerk of the Council. any person bound by recognizance to surrender and take his or her trial at Assizes or Quarter Sessions in the said Winter Assize County, who may be brought before it, and any indictment which has been SUPREME COURT, NORTHERN IRELAND heretofore found by any in any of the WINTER ASSIZE aforesaid counties, the trial of which stands post- poned, and any person against whom depositions THE NORTHERN IRELAND WINTER ASSIZE ORDER, have been taken although not committed for trial, against whom a bill of indictment shall be preferred 1957 by the authority of Her Majesty's Attorney-General By the Governor in the Privy Council of Northern for Northern Ireland for any indictable offence committed within the said Winter Assize County, Ireland and shall have the same powers with respect to the WAKEHURST trial of and passing sentence upon such prisoner or person, and the trial of such indictment, as a Court I. John de Vere, Baron Wakehurst, Knight Com- of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery mander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint would have had at the Assizes in the county where, Michael and Saint George, Governor of Northern but for the said Acts and Orders and this Order, Ireland, by and with the advice and consent of such prisoner or person or such indictment would Her Majesty's Privy Council in Northern Ireland, have been tried and for the purpose of giving effect in pursuance of the Winter Assizes Act, 1876, and to any sentence, whether it be a sentence of capital of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act (Ireland), punishment, or of imprisonment, shall have power to 1877, and of the Government of Ireland Act, 1920, commit such prisoner or person to prison there to be and the Orders made by Her Majesty in Council dealt with according to law; and any indictment under the last mentioned Act, and of all other found by the Grand Jury at the said Winter Assizes, powers in that behalf do hereby order as follows:— the trial of which shall stand postponed, shall be