Statutory Instrument 1996 No. 3160 (N.I. 24)

The Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1996

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1996 No. 3160 (N.I. 24)

NORTHERN IRELAND

The Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1996

Made	19th December 1996

Coming into operation on days to be appointed under Article 1(2)

ARRANGEMENT OF ORDER

PART I
INTRODUCTORY
1.	Title and commencement.
2.	Interpretation.
PART II
TREATMENT OF OFFENDERS
Preliminary
3.	Deferment of sentence.
Discharge
4.	Absolute and conditional discharge.
5.	Commission of further offence by person conditionally discharged.
6.	Effect of discharge.
7.	Supplementary provisions as to discharge.
Community sentences
8.	Restrictions on imposing community sentences.
9.	Procedural requirements for community sentences.
Probation
10.	Probation orders.
11.	Additional requirements which may be included in such orders.
12.	Substitution of conditional discharge for probation.
Community service orders
13.	Community service orders in respect of convicted persons.
14.	Obligations of person subject to community service order.
15.	Orders combining probation and community service.
Orders: supplemental
16.	Enforcement etc. of community orders.
17.	Regulation of community orders.
Custodial sentences
18.	Restriction on imposing sentences of imprisonment or detention on persons not legally represented.
19.	Restrictions on imposing custodial sentences.
20.	Length of custodial sentences.
21.	Procedural requirements for custodial sentences.
22.	Additional requirements in the case of mentally disordered offenders.
23.	Suspended sentences of imprisonment or orders for detention.
24.	Custody probation orders.
25.	Supplementary provisions as to custody probation orders.
Release on licence of certain offenders
26.	Release on licence of sexual offenders.
27.	Breach of licence conditions.
28.	Convictions during currency of original sentences.
Financial penalties
29.	Fixing of fines.
30.	Statements as to offenders' means.
31.	False statements as to financial circumstances.
32.	Remission of fines.
Miscellaneous
33.	Reduction in sentences for guilty pleas.
34.	Reports of probation officers.
35.	Remands.
36.	Savings for mitigation and mentally disordered offenders.
37.	Effect of previous convictions and of offending while on bail.
PART III
JURISDICTION
38.	Offences to which this Part applies.
39.	Jurisdiction in respect of Group A offences.
40.	Questions immaterial to jurisdiction in the case of certain offences.
41.	Rules for determining certain jurisdictional questions relating to the location of events.
42.	Attempt, conspiracy and incitement.
43.	Relevance of external law.
PART IV
COURSE OF JUSTICE: EVIDENCE, PROCEDURE, ETC.
Imputations on character
44.	Imputations on character.
Corroboration
45.	Abolition of corroboration rules.
46.	Abolition of corroboration requirements under Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885.
Intimidation, etc., of witnesses, jurors and others
47.	Intimidation, etc., of witnesses, jurors and others.
Insanity and unfitness to be tried
48.	Procedure in relation to unfitness to be tried.
49.	Trial of the facts in cases of defendants found unfit to be tried.
50.	Procedure in relation to finding of insanity.
51.	Powers to deal with persons not guilty by reason of insanity or unfit to be tried, etc.
Advance information
52.	Rules as to furnishing of information by prosecution in criminal cases.
PART V
MISCELLANEOUS
Certain knives and other dangerous weapons
53.	Manufacture or sale, etc., of certain knives.
54.	Sale of knives and certain articles with blade or point to persons under 16.
55.	Arrest without warrant for offence of having certain weapons on school premises.
Information
56.	Information for financial and other purposes.
57.	Rules and orders.
58.	Amendments, transitional provisions and repeals.

SCHEDULES:
	Schedule 1—	Additional Requirements in Probation Orders.
	Schedule 2—	Enforcement etc. of Community Orders.
	Part I—	Preliminary.
	Part II—	Breach of Requirement of Order.
	Part III—	Revocation of Order.
	Part IV—	Amendment of Order.
	Schedule 3—	Financial Penalties.
	Schedule 4—	Provisions inserted as Schedule 2A to the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986.
	Part I—	Preliminary.
	Part II—	Making and effect of orders.
	Part III—	Revocation and amendment of orders.
	Schedule 5—	Amendments.
	Schedule 6—	Transitional Provisions and Savings.
	Schedule 7—	Repeals.

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