Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015

Cited authorities 315

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Amendments 324

Jurisdiction	Northern Ireland
Citation	2015 NI c 9

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Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015
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

7: Preliminary investigations

8: Mixed committals: evidence on oath at preliminary inquiry

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: In Article 63R of the Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (exclusions for other regimes)—

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...

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