The Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2003

Northern Ireland Order in Council 2003 No. 1247 — creates 9 criminal offences.

Made

8 May 2003

In force from

Not determined

Extent

Not stated

Subject

Dogs, animals, hunting and wildlife

Made under

2000 (c. 1), Schedule to the Northern Ireland Act 2000, Statutory Instrument 2003 No. 1247 (N.I. 13)

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.

Part I of this Order is introductory. Part II makes provision relating to bail in criminal proceedings except where section 67 of the Terrorism Act 2000 applies. Part III provides for time limits for preliminary stages of criminal proceedings. Part IV extends the offence of rape to rape of another man and makes other provision regarding sexual offences including the abolition of the presumption that a boy under the age of 14 years is incapable of sexual intercourse. Part V contains miscellaneous provisions relating to criminal justice including provisions relating to riotous behaviour.

Offences created by this instrument

• d the words “crime of buggery with an animal shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction on indictment to… SCHEDULE 1 · Status not determined · Mixed — some elements strict, some not
• Buggery article 19(1) · Revoked · Strict liability
• Assault with intent to commit buggery article 20 · Revoked · Requires proof of a state of mind
• Indecent assault on a male article 21(1) · Revoked · Strict liability
• Riotous behaviour: increase of maximum term of imprisonment article 28(1) · Status not determined · Strict liability
• “Bail” article 3(4) · Status not determined · Strict liability
• “Bail” article 3(4)(b) · Status not determined · Strict liability
• If a person who has been released on bail fails without reasonable cause to surrender to custody, he shall be guilty… article 5(1) · Status not determined · Strict liability
• If a person who— a has been released on bail, and b has, with reasonable cause, failed to surrender to custody, fails… article 5(2) · Status not determined · Objective fault

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 2003