Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015
Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (2015 c. 9 (N.I.))
- Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (2015 c. 9 (N.I.))
- PART 1 SINGLE JURISDICTION FOR COUNTY COURTS AND MAGISTRATES' COURTS
- 1 Single jurisdiction: abolition of county court divisions and petty sessions districts
- 2 Administrative court divisions
- 3 Directions as to distribution of business
- 4 Lay magistrates
- 5 Justices of the peace
- 6 Consequential amendments
- PART 2 COMMITTAL FOR TRIAL
- CHAPTER 1 RESTRICTION ON HOLDING OF PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATIONS AND MIXED COMMITTALS
- 7 Preliminary investigations
- 8 Mixed committals: evidence on oath at preliminary inquiry
- CHAPTER 2 DIRECT COMMITTAL FOR TRIAL IN CERTAIN CASES
- Application of this Chapter
- 9 Application of this Chapter
- Direct committal for trial: guilty pleas
- 10 Direct committal: indication of intention to plead guilty
- Direct committal for trial: specified offences
- 11 Direct committal: specified offences
- Direct committal for trial: offences related to specified offences
- 12 Direct committal: offences related to specified offences
- Direct committal for trial: procedures
- 13 Direct committal: procedures
- 14 Specified offences: application to dismiss
- 15 Restrictions on reporting applications for dismissal
- 16 Supplementary and consequential provisions
- PART 3 PROSECUTORIAL FINES
- Prosecutorial fine
- 17 Prosecutorial fine: notice of offer
- 18 Prosecutorial fine notice
- 19 Amount of prosecutorial fine
- 20 Restrictions on prosecutions
- Payment of prosecutorial fine
- 21 Payment of prosecutorial fine
- Non-payment of prosecutorial fine
- 22 Failure to pay prosecutorial fine
- 23 Registration certificates
- 24 Registration of sum payable in default
- 25 Challenge to notice of registration
- 26 Setting aside of sum enforceable under section 24
- Interpretation
- 27 Interpretation of this Part
- PART 4 VICTIMS AND WITNESSES
- The Victim Charter and the Witness Charter
- 28 The Victim Charter
- 29 Meaning of victim
- 30 The Witness Charter
- 31 Procedure for issuing Charters
- 32 Effect of non compliance
- Victim statements
- 33 Persons to be afforded opportunity to make victim statement
- 34 Supplementary statement
- 35 Use of victim statement
- Information sharing
- 36 Disclosure for purposes of victim and witness support services and victim information schemes
- PART 5 CRIMINAL RECORDS
- 37 Restriction on information provided to certain persons
- 38 Minimum age for applicants for certificates or to be registered
- 39 Additional grounds for refusing an application to be registered
- 40 Enhanced criminal record certificates: additional safeguards
- 41 Review of criminal record certificates
- 42 Up-dating certificates
- 43 Applications for enhanced criminal record certificates
- 44 Electronic transmission of applications
- 45 Disclosures by Department of Justice to Disclosure and Barring Service
- 46 Inclusion of cautions and other diversionary disposals in criminal records
- 47 Consequential amendments
- PART 6 CHILD PROTECTION DISCLOSURES
- 48 Child protection disclosures
- PART 7 LIVE LINKS IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS
- 49 Live links: accused at committal proceedings
- 50 Live links from another courtroom: first remands, etc.
- 51 Live links: proceedings for failure to comply with certain orders or licence conditions
- 52 Live links: expert witnesses
- 53 Live links: witnesses outside the United Kingdom
- 54 Live links: patients detained in hospital under Mental Health Order
- PART 8 VIOLENT OFFENCES PREVENTION ORDERS
- Violent offences prevention orders
- 55 Violent offences prevention orders
- 56 Violent offences prevention order made on conviction, etc.
- 57 Violent offences prevention order made on application of Chief Constable
- 58 Qualifying offenders
- 59 Provisions that violent offences prevention orders may contain
- 60 Variation, renewal or discharge of violent offences prevention orders
- 61 Interim violent offences prevention orders
- 62 Notice of applications
- 63 Appeals
- Notification requirements
- 64 Offenders subject to notification requirements
- 65 Notification requirements: initial notification
- 66 Notification requirements: changes
- 67 Notification requirements: periodic notification
- 68 Notification requirements: absence from notified residence
- 69 Notification requirements: travel outside the United Kingdom
- 70 Method of notification and related matters
- Supplementary
- 71 Offences
- 72 Supply of information to relevant Northern Ireland departments or Secretary of State
- 73 Supply of information by relevant Northern Ireland departments or Secretary of State
- 74 Information about release or transfer
- 75 Power of entry and search of offender's home address
- 76 Interpretation of this Part
- PART 9 MISCELLANEOUS
- Jury service
- 77 Removal of maximum age for jury service
- 78 Preparation of jury lists
- 79 Persons disqualified for jury service
- 80 Persons ineligible for jury service
- 81 Persons excusable as of right from jury service
- Unpaid community service after early release
- 82 Unpaid community service after early release
- Personal samples, DNA profiles and fingerprints
- 83 Power to take further fingerprints or non-intimate samples
- 84 Retention of material: persons convicted of an offence in England and Wales or Scotland
- 85 Retention of DNA profiles or fingerprints: persons given a prosecutorial fine
- 86 Power to retain DNA profile or fingerprints in connection with different offence
- 87 Retention of personal samples that are or may be disclosable
- Early guilty pleas
- 88 Sentencing court to indicate sentence which would have been imposed if guilty plea entered at earliest reasonable opportunity
- Sexual offences against children
- 89 Meeting a child following sexual grooming etc.
- 90 Sexual communication with a child
- Avoiding delay in criminal proceedings
- 91 General duty to progress criminal proceedings
- 92 Case management regulations
- Public Prosecutor's summons
- 93 Public Prosecutor's summons
- Defence access to premises
- 94 Defence access to premises
- Court security officers
- 95 Powers of court security officers
- Causing or allowing child or vulnerable adult to suffer serious physical harm
- 96 Causing or allowing child or vulnerable adult to suffer serious physical harm
- Domestic violence protection notices and orders
- 97 Domestic violence protection notices and orders
- Youth justice
- 98 Aims of youth justice system
- 99 Amendment to section 10 of the Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2013
- Salary of Lands Tribunal members
- 100 Salary of Lands Tribunal members
- Amendment to Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Criminal Justice and Support for Victims) Act (Northern Ireland) 2015
- 101 Amendment to Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Criminal Justice and Support for Victims) Act (Northern Ireland) 2015
- PART 10 SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS
- 102 Regulations, orders and directions
- 103 Interpretation
- 104 Transitional provisions, etc.
- 105 Repeals
- 106 Commencement
- 107 Short title
- SCHEDULES
- SCHEDULE 1 AMENDMENTS: SINGLE JURISDICTION
- The Gaming Act (Ireland) 1739 (c. 8)
- The Forcible Entry Act (Ireland) 1786 (c. 24)
- The Parliamentary Representation Act (Ireland) 1800 (c. 29)
- The Tolls (Ireland) Act 1817 (c. 108)
- The Tithe Rentcharge (Ireland) Act 1838 (c. 109)
- The Defence Act 1842 (c. 94)
- The Fisheries (Ireland) Act 1842 (c. 106)
- The Companies Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 (c. 16)
- The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 (c. 18)
- The Railways Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 (c. 20)
- The Ejectment and Distress (Ireland) Act 1846 (c. 111)
- The Markets and Fairs Clauses Act 1847 (c. 14)
- The Commissioners Clauses Act 1847 (c. 16)
- The Harbours, Docks and Piers Clauses Act 1847 (c. 27)
- The Towns Improvement Clauses Act 1847 (c. 34)
- The Cemeteries Clauses Act 1847 (c. 65)
- The Vagrancy (Ireland) Act 1847 (c. 84)
- The Town Police Clauses Act 1847 (c. 89)
- The Railway Act (Ireland) 1851 (c. 70)
- The Fines Act (Ireland) 1851 (c. 90)
- The Summary Jurisdiction (Ireland) Act 1851 (c. 92)
- The Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act 1851 (c. 93)
- The Boundary Survey (Ireland) Act 1854 (c. 17)
- The Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act 1854 (c. 103)
- The Boundary Survey (Ireland) Act 1859 (c. 8)
- The Ecclesiastical Courts Jurisdiction Act 1860 (c. 32)
- The Tramways (Ireland) Act 1860 (c. 152)
- The Landlord and Tenant Law Amendment Act (Ireland) 1860 (c. 154)
- The Railways Act (Ireland) 1864 (c. 71)
- The Dockyard Ports Regulation Act 1865 (c. 125)
- The Promissory Oaths Act 1871 (c. 48)
- The Matrimonial Causes and Marriage Law (Ireland) Amendment Act 1871 (c. 49)
- The Public Health (Ireland) Act 1878 (c. 52)
- The Settled Land Act 1882 (c. 38)
- The Married Women's Property Act 1882 (c. 75)
- The Explosive Substances Act 1883 (c. 3)
- The Bills of Sale (Ireland) Act (1879) Amendment Act 1883 (c. 7)
- The Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 (c. 37)
- The Open Spaces Act 1906 (c. 25)
- The Summary Jurisdiction (Ireland) Act 1908 (c. 24)
- The Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Act 1920 (c. 33)
- The Government Annuities Act 1929 (c. 29)
- The Summary Jurisdiction and Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1935 (c. 13)
- The Water Supplies and Sewerage Act (Northern Ireland) 1945 (c. 17)
- The Agriculture Act (Northern Ireland) 1949 (c. 2)
- The Maintenance Orders Act 1950 (c. 37)
- The Foyle Fisheries Act (Northern Ireland) 1952 (c. 5)
- The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 (c. 33)
- The Summary Jurisdiction and Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1958 (c. 9)
- The Coroners Act (Northern Ireland) 1959 (c. 15)
- The County Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 1959 (c. 25)
- The Northern Ireland Act 1962 (c. 3)
- The Agricultural Produce (Meat Regulation and Pig Industry) Act (Northern Ireland) 1962 (c. 13)
- The Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962 (c. 14)
- The Caravans Act (Northern Ireland) 1963 (c. 17)
- The Agricultural Marketing Act (Northern Ireland) 1964 (c. 13)
- The Magistrates' Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 1964 (c. 21)
- The Fisheries Act (Northern Ireland) 1966 (c. 17)
- The Maintenance and Affiliation Orders Act (Northern Ireland) 1966 (c. 35)
- The Medicines Act 1968 (c. 67)
- The Treatment of Offenders Act (Northern Ireland) 1968 (c. 29)
- The Children and Young Persons Act (Northern Ireland) 1968 (c. 34)
- The Industrial and Provident Societies Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 (c. 24)
- The Immigration Act 1971 (c. 77)
- The Civil Evidence Act (Northern Ireland) 1971 (c. 36)
- The Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972 (c. 18)
- The Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 (NI 14)
- The Drainage (Northern Ireland) Order 1973 (NI 1)
- The Consumer Credit Act 1974 (c. 39)
- The Friendly Societies Act 1974 (c. 46)
- The Treatment of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1976 (NI 4)
- The Criminal Damage (Compensation)(Northern Ireland) Order 1977 (NI 14)
- The Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977 (NI 28)
- The Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978 (c. 23)
- The Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30)
- The Matrimonial Causes (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 (NI 15)
- The Protection of Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 (NI 17)
- The Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) (Northern Ireland) Order 1979 (NI 8)
- The Administration of Estates (Northern Ireland) Order 1979 (NI 14)
- The County Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1980 (NI 3)
- The Domestic Proceedings (Northern Ireland) Order 1980 (NI 15)
- The Betting and Gaming Duties Act 1981 (c. 63)
- The Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 (NI 1)
- The Judgments Enforcement (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 (NI 6)
- The Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 (NI 8)
- The Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 (NI 26)
- The Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 (c. 27)
- The Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48)
- The Probation Board (Northern Ireland) Order 1982 (NI 10)
- The Video Recordings Act 1984 (c. 39)
- The Betting, Gaming, Lotteries and Amusements (Northern Ireland) Order 1985 (NI 11)
- The Credit Unions (Northern Ireland) Order 1985 (NI 12)
- The Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1985 (NI 15)
- The Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (NI 4)
- The Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987 (NI 22)
- The Matrimonial and Family Proceedings (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (NI 4)
- The Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (NI 12)
- The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (c. 37)
- The Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53)
- The Road Traffic (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 (NI 3)
- The Friendly Societies Act 1992 (c. 40)
- The Tourism (Northern Ireland) Order 1992 (NI 3)
- The Family Law (Northern Ireland) Order 1993 (NI 6)
- The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (c.50)
- The Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (NI 2)
- The Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (NI 18)
- The Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (c. 25)
- The Juries (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (NI 6)
- The Road Traffic (Offenders) (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (NI 10)
- The Licensing (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (NI 22)
- The Registration of Clubs (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (NI 23)
- The Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (NI 24)
- The Race Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 (NI 6)
- The Family Homes and Domestic Violence (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (NI 6)
- The Criminal Justice (Children) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (NI 9)
- The Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (NI 20)
- The Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (NI 21)
- The Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) Act 1999 (c. 2)
- The Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002 (c. 26)
- The Company Directors Disqualification (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 (NI 4)
- The Finance Act 2003 (c. 14)
- The Crime (International Co-operation) Act 2003 (c. 32)
- The Sexual Offences Act 2003 (c. 42)
- The Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33)
- The Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2004 (NI 9)
- The Criminal Justice (Evidence) (Northern Ireland) Order 2004 (NI 10)
- The Anti-Social Behaviour (Northern Ireland) Order 2004 (NI 15)
- The Lay Magistrates (Eligibility) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004 (SR 2004/246)
- The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15)
- The Safety of Sports Grounds (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (NI 2)
- The Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007 (c. 20)
- The Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 2007 (NI 10)
- The Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (c. 4)
- The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (c. 22)
- The Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 (c. 28)
- The Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 (NI 1)
- The Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (c. 23)
- The Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (c. 25)
- The Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Act 2011 (c. 23)
- The Caravans Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 12)
- The Welfare of Animals Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 16)
- The Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 24)
- The Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. )
- The Serious Crime Act 2015 (c. 9)
- SCHEDULE 2 AMENDMENTS: DIRECT COMMITTAL FOR TRIAL
- The Grand Jury (Abolition) Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 (c. 15)
- The Evidence of Alibi Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 (c. 6)
- The Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 (NI 8)
- The Criminal Justice (Serious Fraud) (Northern Ireland) Order 1988 (NI 16)
- The Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1988 (NI 20)
- The Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (NI 12)
- The Children's Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (NI 3)
- The Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (c. 25)
- The Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (NI 10)
- The Criminal Justice (Children) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (NI 9)
- The Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (NI 8)
- SCHEDULE 3 DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION: VICTIM AND WITNESS SUPPORT SERVICES AND VICTIM INFORMATION SCHEMES
- Disclosure by police to body providing support services for victims
- Disclosure by Public Prosecution Service to body providing support services for witnesses
- Disclosure by Public Prosecution Service for purposes of victim information schemes
- Unauthorised disclosure of information
- Saving for other powers of disclosure
- Interpretation
- SCHEDULE 4 SCHEDULE INSERTED AS SCHEDULE 8A TO THE POLICE ACT 1997
- SCHEDULE 5 AMENDMENTS: CRIMINAL RECORDS
- The Police Act 1997(c. 50)
- The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Northern Ireland) Order 2007 (NI 11)
- SCHEDULE 6 AMENDMENTS: SERIOUS PHYSICAL HARM TO CHILD OR VULNERABLE ADULT
- The Law Reform (Year and a Day Rule) Act 1996 (c. 19)
- The Sexual Offences Act 2003 (c. 42)
- The Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 (c. 28)
- The Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 (NI 1)
- SCHEDULE 7 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROTECTION NOTICES AND ORDERS
- Power to issue a domestic violence protection notice
- Contents and service of a domestic violence protection notice
- Breach of a domestic violence protection notice
- Application for a domestic violence protection order
- Conditions for and contents of a DVPO
- Breach of a DVPO
- Further provision about remand
- Guidance
- Interpretation
- Pilot schemes
- SCHEDULE 8 TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND SAVINGS
- Part 1: Saving for jurisdiction conferred by other statutory provisions
- Part 1: Lay magistrates
- Part 1: Justices of the peace
- Part 2: Committal proceedings
- Part 3: Prosecutorial fines
- Part 7: Live links
- Part 9: DNA profiles or fingerprints
- Part 9: Early guilty pleas
- Part 9: Meeting a child following sexual grooming etc.
- Part 9: Public Prosecutor's summons
- Part 9: Serious physical harm to a child or vulnerable adult
- SCHEDULE 9 REPEALS
- PART 1 SINGLE JURISDICTION
- PART 2 RESTRICTION ON HOLDING PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATIONS AND MIXED COMMITTALS
- PART 3 CRIMINAL RECORDS
- PART 4 LIVE LINKS
- PART 5 JURY SERVICE
- PART 6 YOUTH JUSTICE
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