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Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015
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2022-10-17
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2022-04-28
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2022-03-10
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2022-03-08
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2019-04-12
Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015
2018-06-01
Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015
Changes on 2018-06-01
@@ -2338,11 +2338,13 @@
- (4) Subject to subsection (5), the supply of information under this section is to be taken not to breach any restriction on the disclosure of information (however arising).
- (5) This section does not authorise the doing of anything that contravenes the Data Protection Act 1998.
- (5) This section does not authorise the doing of anything that contravenes the data protection legislation .
- (6) This section does not affect any power to supply information that exists apart from this section.
- (7) In this section—
- “*the data protection legislation*” has the same meaning as in the Data Protection Act 2018 (see section 3 of that Act);
- “*relevant Northern Ireland department*” means the Department for Employment and Learning, the Department of the Environment or the Department for Social Development;
@@ -6095,27 +6097,27 @@
## PART 6 — YOUTH JUSTICE
#### Single jurisdiction: abolition of county court divisions and petty sessions districts
#### Justices of the peace
#### Preliminary investigations
#### Administrative court divisions
#### Consequential amendments
#### Mixed committals: evidence on oath at preliminary inquiry
#### Supplementary and consequential provisions
#### Prosecutorial fine: notice of offer
#### Restrictions on prosecutions
#### Challenge to notice of registration
#### The Victim Charter
#### Restriction on information provided to certain persons
#### Review of criminal record certificates
#### Live links: accused at committal proceedings
#### Prosecutorial fine notice
#### Payment of prosecutorial fine
#### Setting aside of sum enforceable under section 24
#### Meaning of victim
#### Minimum age for applicants for certificates or to be registered
#### Up-dating certificates
#### Live links from another courtroom: first remands, etc.
#### Live links: proceedings for failure to comply with certain orders or licence conditions
@@ -6125,31 +6127,31 @@
#### Live links: patients detained in hospital under Mental Health Order
#### Violent offences prevention orders
#### Provisions that violent offences prevention orders may contain
#### Power of entry and search of offender's home address
#### Violent offences prevention order made on conviction, etc.
#### Variation, renewal or discharge of violent offences prevention orders
#### Interpretation of this Part
#### Removal of maximum age for jury service
#### Preparation of jury lists
#### Persons disqualified for jury service
#### Persons excusable as of right from jury service
#### Unpaid community service after early release
#### Retention of material: persons convicted of an offence in England and Wales or Scotland
#### Sentencing court to indicate sentence which would have been imposed if guilty plea entered at earliest reasonable opportunity
#### Power to take further fingerprints or non-intimate samples
#### Retention of DNA profiles or fingerprints: persons given a prosecutorial fine
#### Meeting a child following sexual grooming etc.
#### Sexual communication with a child
#### General duty to progress criminal proceedings
#### Domestic violence protection notices and orders
#### Regulations, orders and directions
#### Case management regulations
#### Aims of youth justice system
#### Interpretation
In section 11 the words “and as if after the words “petty sessions” there were inserted “ for the petty sessions district for which the court which made the order acts ”.”
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[^key-97f479b7236841bc1fad8dd191f3683b]: [S. 71](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2015/9/section/71) in operation at 1.12.2016 by [S.R. 2016/417](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/417), [art. 2(p)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/417/article/2/p)
[^key-790a00a30f60676051c6501f25494417]: [S. 72](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2015/9/section/72) in operation at 1.12.2016 by [S.R. 2016/417](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/417), [art. 2(q)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/417/article/2/q)
[^key-790a00a30f60676051c6501f25494417]: S. 72 in operation at 1.12.2016 by [S.R. 2016/417](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/417), [art. 2(q)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/417/article/2/q)
[^key-a38f658c5b053c5d36f838faca38d0a8]: [S. 73](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2015/9/section/73) in operation at 1.12.2016 by [S.R. 2016/417](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/417), [art. 2(r)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/417/article/2/r)
@@ -6689,16 +6691,20 @@
[^key-44d7a7b37cc940b66a374a4d5e151240]: [S. 30](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2015/9/section/30) in operation at 30.12.2016 by [S.R. 2016/436](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/436), [art. 2](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/436/article/2)
[^key-f6e3a90597a383986e3e79789ecaadb7]: Words in [s. 72(5)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2015/9/section/72/5) substituted (25.5.2018) by [Data Protection Act 2018 (c. 12)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12), [s. 212(1)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12/section/212/1), [Sch. 19 para. 196(2)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12/schedule/19/paragraph/196/2) (with [ss. 117](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12/section/117), [209](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12/section/209), [210](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12/section/210)); [S.I. 2018/625](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/625), [reg. 2(1)(g)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/625/regulation/2/1/g)
[^key-65a31f39e1c4e897ce8acdadeb233213]: Words in [s. 72(7)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2015/9/section/72/7) inserted (25.5.2018) by [Data Protection Act 2018 (c. 12)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12), [s. 212(1)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12/section/212/1), [Sch. 19 para. 196(3)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12/schedule/19/paragraph/196/3) (with [ss. 117](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12/section/117), [209](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12/section/209), [210](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12/section/210)); [S.I. 2018/625](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/625), [reg. 2(1)(g)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/625/regulation/2/1/g)
[^key-f6636d2ebd304c666628aa274df2368f]: Words in s. 24(2)(a) substituted (1.6.2018) by [Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 21)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/21), [s. 61(2)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/21/section/61/2), [Sch. 2 para. 8(1)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/21/schedule/2/paragraph/8/1); [S.R. 2018/99](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2018/99), [art. 2(c)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2018/99/article/2/c) (but this amendment cannot take effect until the commencement of 2015 c. 9 (NI), s. 24)
[^key-8c0e8e5efaf8fe16983ba499d01b0437]: S. 24(3A)(3B) inserted (1.6.2018) by [Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 21)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/21), [s. 61(2)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/21/section/61/2), [Sch. 2 para. 8(2)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/21/schedule/2/paragraph/8/2); [S.R. 2018/99](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2018/99), [art. 2(c)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2018/99/article/2/c) (but this amendment cannot take effect until the commencement of 2015 c. 9 (NI), s. 24)
[^key-35daa32c9bde028ff40ae1d2c5ad2ed3]: Words in s. 25(7) inserted (1.6.2018) by [Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 21)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/21), [s. 61(2)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/21/section/61/2), [Sch. 2 para. 8(3)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/21/schedule/2/paragraph/8/3); [S.R. 2018/99](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2018/99), [art. 2(c)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2018/99/article/2/c) (but this amendment cannot take effect until the commencement of 2015 c. 9 (NI), s. 25)
[^key-b559ff23c5955493f21af0a8af6567c6]: Words in s. 26(3) inserted (1.6.2018) by [Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 21)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/21), [s. 61(2)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/21/section/61/2), [Sch. 2 para. 8(4)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/21/schedule/2/paragraph/8/4); [S.R. 2018/99](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2018/99), [art. 2(c)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2018/99/article/2/c) (but this amendment cannot take effect until the commencement of s. 26)
[^key-c2492047029258b70810cc0a084b94a4]: Words in [s. 27](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2015/9/section/27) inserted (1.6.2018) by [Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 21)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/21), [s. 61(2)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/21/section/61/2), [Sch. 2 para. 8(5)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/21/schedule/2/paragraph/8/5); [S.R. 2018/99](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2018/99), [art. 2(c)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2018/99/article/2/c) (but this amendment cannot take effect until the commencement of 2015 c. 9 (NI), s. 27)
[^key-b559ff23c5955493f21af0a8af6567c6]: Words in s. 26(3) inserted (1.6.2018) by [Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 21)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/21), [s. 61(2)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/21/section/61/2), [Sch. 2 para. 8(4)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/21/schedule/2/paragraph/8/4); [S.R. 2018/99](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2018/99), [art. 2(c)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2018/99/article/2/c) (but this amendment cannot take effect until the commencement of s. 26)
[^key-35daa32c9bde028ff40ae1d2c5ad2ed3]: Words in s. 25(7) inserted (1.6.2018) by [Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 21)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/21), [s. 61(2)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/21/section/61/2), [Sch. 2 para. 8(3)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/21/schedule/2/paragraph/8/3); [S.R. 2018/99](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2018/99), [art. 2(c)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2018/99/article/2/c) (but this amendment cannot take effect until the commencement of 2015 c. 9 (NI), s. 25)
[^key-8c0e8e5efaf8fe16983ba499d01b0437]: S. 24(3A)(3B) inserted (1.6.2018) by [Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 21)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/21), [s. 61(2)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/21/section/61/2), [Sch. 2 para. 8(2)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/21/schedule/2/paragraph/8/2); [S.R. 2018/99](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2018/99), [art. 2(c)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2018/99/article/2/c) (but this amendment cannot take effect until the commencement of 2015 c. 9 (NI), s. 24)
[^key-f6636d2ebd304c666628aa274df2368f]: Words in s. 24(2)(a) substituted (1.6.2018) by [Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 21)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/21), [s. 61(2)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/21/section/61/2), [Sch. 2 para. 8(1)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/21/schedule/2/paragraph/8/1); [S.R. 2018/99](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2018/99), [art. 2(c)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2018/99/article/2/c) (but this amendment cannot take effect until the commencement of 2015 c. 9 (NI), s. 24)
[^key-c18dd544a3410174ea5b8eab82e1dc69]: Words in [s. 13(3)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2015/9/section/13/3) repealed (17.10.2022) by [Criminal Justice (Committal Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (c. 4)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2022/4), [s. 5(2)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2022/4/section/5/2), [Sch. para. 18(b)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2022/4/schedule/paragraph/18/b); [S.R. 2022/221](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2022/221), [art. 2(d)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2022/221/article/2/d)
[^key-3c6293e80530582e31e237ac4d0bca51]: [Sch. 9 Pt. 2](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2015/9/schedule/9/part/2) repealed (17.10.2022) by [Criminal Justice (Committal Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (c. 4)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2022/4), [s. 5(2)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2022/4/section/5/2), [Sch. para. 18(d)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2022/4/schedule/paragraph/18/d); [S.R. 2022/221](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2022/221), [art. 2(d)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2022/221/article/2/d)
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