The Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2004

Northern Ireland Order in Council 2004 No. 1500 — creates 4 criminal offences.

Made

10 June 2004

In force from

Not determined

Extent

Not stated

Subject

Courts, police, prisons and the administration of justice

Made under

2000 (c. 1), 2003 (c. 44), Criminal Justice Act 2003, Schedule to the Northern Ireland Act 2000

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 the purposes of the provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44) specified in section 334(2) of that Act (except section 3(3) and Part 11 of that Act). Part II amends the Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989. Part III provides for the use of live links in certain criminal proceedings. Part IV provides a right for the prosecution to appeal to the Court of Appeal in trials on indictment.

Offences created by this instrument

• Where the publication is a newspaper or periodical, any proprietor, editor or publisher of the newspaper or periodical… article 31(2) · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Where the publication is a relevant programme— a any body corporate engaged in providing the programme service in… article 31(3) · Status not determined · Strict liability
• In the case of any other publication, any person publishing it is guilty of an offence article 31(4) · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Conspiracy paragraph 31 of SCHEDULE 2 · 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 2004