The Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1998

Northern Ireland Order in Council 1998 No. 2839 — creates 2 criminal offences.

Made

17 November 1998

In force from

Not determined

Extent

Not stated

Subject

Miscellaneous

Made under

Crime and Disorder Act 1998, 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 sections 2 to 4, 34, 47(5), 57, 61 to 64 and 85 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998. The Order— a abolishes the rebuttable presumption that a child is doli incapax; b enables youth courts to proceed with a trial notwithstanding that it has committed the accused for trial for another offence or that the accused is charged with another offence; c makes provision for the use of live television links at preliminary investigations and inquiries; and d makes further provision with respect to the treatment of offenders by sex offender orders and drug treatment and testing orders.

Offences created by this instrument

• Sex offender orders article 6(8) · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Sex offender orders: supplemental article 7(4) · 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.

Check the source

• This instrument on legislation.gov.uk The authoritative text, including amendments made since
• Other instruments from 1998