142 Power of magistrates' court to re-open cases to rectify mistakes etc
Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (1980 c 43) | Legislation

Power to rectify mistakes etc

142  Power of magistrates' court to re-open cases to rectify mistakes etc

(1)     [A magistrates' court may vary or rescind a sentence or other order imposed or made by it when dealing with an offender if it appears to the court to be in the interests of justice to do so;] and it is hereby declared that this power extends to replacing a sentence or order which for any reason appears to be invalid by another which the court has power to impose or make.

[(1A)     The power conferred on a magistrates' court by subsection (1) above shall not

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