UK Act of Parliament 1996 c. 3160 United Kingdom

The Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1996

Status
In Force
Penalty ceiling
Regulated

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Plus 1 duty on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.

What it requires

Sections creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.

59 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.art001 Title and commencement
s.art002 Interpretation
s.art003 Deferment of sentence
s.art004 Absolute and conditional discharge
s.art005 Commission of further offence by person conditionally discharged
s.art006 Effect of discharge
s.art007 Supplementary provisions as to discharge
s.art008 Restrictions on imposing community sentences
s.art009 Procedural requirements for community sentences
s.art010 Probation orders
s.art011 Additional requirements which may be included in such orders
s.art012 Substitution of conditional discharge for probation
s.art013 Community service orders in respect of convicted persons
s.art014 Obligations of person subject to community service order
s.art015 Orders combining probation and community service
s.art016 Enforcement etc. of community orders
s.art017 Regulation of community orders
s.art018 Restriction on imposing sentences of imprisonment or detention on persons not legally represented
s.art019 Restrictions on imposing custodial sentences
s.art020 Length of custodial sentences
s.art021 Procedural requirements for custodial sentences
s.art021 Disclosure of pre-sentence reports
s.art022 Additional requirements in the case of mentally disordered offenders
s.art023 Suspended sentences of imprisonment or orders for detention
s.art024 Custody probation orders
s.art025 Supplementary provisions as to custody probation orders
s.art026 Release on licence of sexual offenders
s.art027 Breach of licence conditions
s.art028 Convictions during currency of original sentences
s.art029 Fixing of fines
s.art030 Statements as to offenders' means
s.art031 False statements as to financial circumstances
s.art032 Remission of fines
s.art033 Reduction in sentences for guilty pleas
s.art036 Savings for mitigation and mentally disordered offenders
s.art037 Effect of previous convictions and of offending while on bail
s.art038 Offences to which this Part applies
s.art039 Jurisdiction in respect of Group A offences
s.art040 Questions immaterial to jurisdiction in the case of certain offences
s.art041 Rules for determining certain jurisdictional questions relating to the location of events
s.art042 Attempt, conspiracy and incitement
s.art043 Relevance of external law
s.art044 Imputations on character
s.art045 Abolition of corroboration rules
s.art046 Abolition of corroboration requirements under Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885
s.art047 Intimidation, etc., of witnesses, jurors and others
s.art048 Procedure in relation to unfitness to be tried
s.art049 Trial of the facts in cases of defendants found unfit to be tried
s.art050 Procedure in relation to finding of insanity
s.art051 Powers to deal with persons not guilty by reason of insanity or unfit to be tried, etc.
s.art052 Rules as to furnishing of information by prosecution in criminal cases
s.art053 Manufacture or sale, etc., of certain knives
s.art054 Sale of knives and certain articles with blade or point to persons under 16
s.art055 Arrest without warrant for offence of having certain weapons on school premises
s.art056 Information for financial and other purposes
s.art057 Rules and orders
s.art058 Amendments, transitional provisions and repeals
s.paragraph/p4 Art. 34 rep. by 2003 NI 13
s.paragraph/p5 Art. 35 rep. by 2003 NI 13
Schedules

Schedules

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s.sch001 (1) This paragraph applies where a court proposing to make a probation order is satisfied... Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Court must ensure treatment arrangements are in place before adding mental health condition to probation orderTribunal / Court
24 other schedules
s.sch001 (1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3), a probation order may include requirements as to...
s.sch001 (1) Subject to the provisions of this paragraph, a probation order may require the offender—...
s.sch001 (1) Subject to the provisions of this paragraph, a probation order may require the offender...
s.sch001 (1) This paragraph applies where a court proposing to make a probation order is satisfied—...
s.sch002 In this Schedule— “relevant order” means a probation order or a community service order; and...
s.sch002 Where by virtue of paragraph 9(2)(b) an offender is brought or appears before the Crown...
s.sch002 (1) On the making under this Part of an order revoking a relevant order, the...
s.sch002 (1) A court of summary jurisdiction may, on the application of the offender or the...
s.sch002 (1) Where the medical practitioner or other person by whom or under whose direction an...
s.sch002 Where— (a) a community service order is in force in respect of any offender; and...
s.sch002 No order may be made under paragraph 12, and no application may be made under...
s.sch002 (1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), where a court proposes to exercise its powers under this...
s.sch002 (1) On the making under this Part of an order amending a relevant order ,...
s.sch002 (1) If at any time while a relevant order is in force in respect of...
s.sch002 (1) Where under paragraph 2 an offender is brought or appears before a court of...
s.sch002 (1) Where . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
s.sch002 (1) Without prejudice to paragraphs 7 and 8, an offender who is convicted of a...
s.sch002 (1) Any exercise by a court of its powers under paragraph 3(1)(a), (b) or (c)...
s.sch002 (1) This paragraph applies where a relevant order made by a magistrates' court is in...
s.sch002 (1) This paragraph applies where — (a) a relevant order made by the Crown Court...
s.sch002 (1) This paragraph applies where— (a) an offender in respect of whom a relevant order...
s.sch006 Each of Articles 8 to 11, 13, 15, 19 to 33, 36 and 37 shall...
s.sch006 Neither paragraph (2) of Article 6, nor the repeal by this Order of section 8...
s.sch006 An order made under Article 49(5) or 50(2) of the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order...

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