The Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989
Northern Ireland Order in Council 1989 No. 1341 — creates 2 criminal offences.
- Made
- 2 August 1989
- In force from
- Not determined
- Extent
- Not stated
- Subject
- Courts, police, prisons and the administration of justice
- Made under
- 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 makes changes in the law in Northern Ireland relating to the powers of the police in the investigation of crime and to evidence in criminal proceedings. Parts II to V deal with police powers to stop and search persons and vehicles, to enter and search premises, as well as powers of arrest and detention. Part VI is concerned with the questioning and treatment of the persons arrested and detained. Under Part VII the Secretary of State is required to issue codes of practice for the detention, treatment, questioning and identification of persons by the police and for the searching of premises and the seizure of property by the police. Part VIII deals with documentary evidence in criminal proceedings and Part IX with evidence generally in such proceedings. Part X contains a number of general provisions relating to the police.
Offences created by this instrument
- Intimate searches article 56(17) · Revoked, but still prosecutable · Requires proof of a state of mind
- Any person who in a certificate tendered under paragraph 1 in a magistrates' court, a county court, the Crown Court or… paragraph 3 of SCHEDULE 3 · Revoked, but still prosecutable · 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.
Check the source
- This instrument on legislation.gov.uk The authoritative text, including amendments made since
- Other instruments from 1989