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The Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 (Designated Places of Detention No. 2) Order 2003

Type Ni-Statutory-Rule

Publication 2003-10-29

State In force

Jurisdiction Northern Ireland

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Made: 29th October 2003

Laid before Parliament: 30th October 2003

Coming into force: 5th November 2003

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 73(10) of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000[^f00001], hereby makes the following Order: –

1

This Order may be cited as the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 (Designated Places of Detention No. 2) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 5th November 2003.

2

There is hereby specified as a designated place of detention for the purposes of section 73 of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 (places of detention: lay visitors) that part of Gough Barracks that has been designated under paragraph 1 of Schedule 8 to the Terrorism Act 2000[^f00002] (place of detention), being so much of Gough Barracks as is needed to detain persons under section 41 of or Schedule 7 to the Terrorism Act 2000.

Signed

Jane Kennedy — Minister of State — 29th October 2003

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

Under section 73 of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 (“the 2000 Act”) lay visitors may only visit a place of detention designated by the Secretary of State under paragraph 1 of Schedule 8 to the Terrorism Act 2000 if it has been designated by Order as a place they may visit.

This Order designates as a place of detention that may be visited by lay visitors under section 73 of the 2000 Act that part of Gough Barracks that has been designated by the Secretary of State under paragraph 1 of Schedule 8 to the Terrorism Act 2000. The effect of section 73(9) of the 2000 Act is that the remainder of Gough Barracks, which is a police station, can in any event be visited by lay visitors.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2000 c. 32

[^f00002]: 2000 c. 11

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