Criminal Justice (Evidence, Etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 1988

Northern Ireland Order in Council 1988 No. 1847 — creates 2 criminal offences.

Made

26 October 1988

In force from

Not determined

Extent

Not stated

Subject

Sexual offences and indecent or obscene material

Made under

Criminal Justice Act 1988, Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Act 1974

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

This Order is made only for purposes corresponding to those of Part II, Part III (except section 32) and sections 47 and 160 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988. It extends only to Northern Ireland Part II of the Order deals with the admissibility of documentary evidence in criminal proceedings and Part III contains other provisions about evidence in such proceedings. In Part IV, Article 14 increases the maximum penalties for corruption and Article 15 creates the summary offence of possessing an indecent photograph of a child.

Offences created by this instrument

• It is an offence for a person to have any indecent photograph of a child (meaning in this Article a person under the… article 15(1) · Status not determined · Strict liability
• A person shall be liable on summary conviction of an offence under paragraph (1) to a fine not exceeding level 5 on… article 15(3) · Status not determined · Strict liability

How Parliament handled it

Parliament's Statutory Instruments service records procedure from May 2017 onwards, and this instrument predates it. That is a limit of the source, not a statement that nothing happened.

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• This instrument on legislation.gov.uk The authoritative text, including amendments made since
• Other instruments from 1988