The Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1996
PART IINTRODUCTORY
1Title and commencement
2Interpretation
PART IITREATMENT OF OFFENDERS
Preliminary
3Deferment of sentence
Discharge
4Absolute and conditional discharge
5Commission of further offence by person conditionally discharged
6Effect of discharge
7Supplementary provisions as to discharge
Community sentences
8Restrictions on imposing community sentences
9Procedural requirements for community sentences
Probation
10Probation orders
11Additional requirements which may be included in such orders
12Substitution of conditional discharge for probation
Community service orders
13Community service orders in respect of convicted persons
14Obligations of person subject to community service order
15Orders combining probation and community service
Orders: supplemental
16Enforcement etc. of community orders
17Regulation of community orders
Custodial sentences
18Restriction on imposing sentences of imprisonment or detention on persons not legally represented
19Restrictions on imposing custodial sentences
20Length of custodial sentences
21Procedural requirements for custodial sentences
21ADisclosure of pre-sentence reports
22Additional requirements in the case of mentally disordered offenders
23Suspended sentences of imprisonment or orders for detention
24Custody probation orders
25Supplementary provisions as to custody probation orders
Release on licence of certain offenders
26Release on licence of sexual offenders
27Breach of licence conditions
28Convictions during currency of original sentences
Financial penalties
29Fixing of fines
30Statements as to offenders' means
31False statements as to financial circumstances
32Remission of fines
Miscellaneous
33Reduction in sentences for guilty pleas
Art. 34 rep. by 2003 NI 13
Art. 35 rep. by 2003 NI 13
36Savings for mitigation and mentally disordered offenders
37Effect of previous convictions and of offending while on bail
PART IIIJURISDICTION
38Offences to which this Part applies
39Jurisdiction in respect of Group A offences
40Questions immaterial to jurisdiction in the case of certain offences
41Rules for determining certain jurisdictional questions relating to the location of events
42Attempt, conspiracy and incitement
43Relevance of external law
PART IVCOURSE OF JUSTICE: EVIDENCE, PROCEDURE, ETC.
Imputations on character
44Imputations on character
Corroboration
45Abolition of corroboration rules
46Abolition of corroboration requirements under Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885
Intimidation, etc., of witnesses, jurors and others
47Intimidation, etc., of witnesses, jurors and others
Insanity and unfitness to be tried
48Procedure in relation to unfitness to be tried
49Trial of the facts in cases of defendants found unfit to be tried
50Procedure in relation to finding of insanity
51Powers to deal with persons not guilty by reason of insanity or unfit to be tried, etc.
Advance information
52Rules as to furnishing of information by prosecution in criminal cases
PART VMISCELLANEOUS
Certain knives and other dangerous weapons
53Manufacture or sale, etc., of certain knives
54Sale of knives and certain articles with blade or point to persons under 16
55Arrest without warrant for offence of having certain weapons on school premises
Information
56Information for financial and other purposes
57Rules and orders
58Amendments, transitional provisions and repeals
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS IN PROBATION ORDERS
Requirements as to residence (1) (1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3), a probation order...
Requirements as to residence
1(1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3), a probation order may include requirements as to...
Requirements as to activities etc.
2(1) Subject to the provisions of this paragraph, a probation order may require the offender—...
Requirements as to attendance at day centre
3(1) Subject to the provisions of this paragraph, a probation order may require the offender...
Requirements as to treatment for mental condition etc.
4(1) This paragraph applies where a court proposing to make a probation order is satisfied...
Requirements as to treatment for drug or alcohol dependency
5(1) This paragraph applies where a court proposing to make a probation order is satisfied—...
SCHEDULE 2ENFORCEMENT ETC. OF COMMUNITY ORDERS
PART IPRELIMINARY
1In this Schedule— “relevant order” means a probation order or a community service order; and...
PART IIBREACH OF REQUIREMENT OF ORDER
Issue of summons or warrant
2(1) If at any time while a relevant order is in force in respect of...
Powers of court of summary jurisdiction
3(1) Where under paragraph 2 an offender is brought or appears before a court of...
Powers of Crown Court
4(1) Where . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
Exclusions
5(1) Without prejudice to paragraphs 7 and 8, an offender who is convicted of a...
Supplemental
6(1) Any exercise by a court of its powers under paragraph 3(1)(a), (b) or (c)...
PART IIIREVOCATION OF ORDER
Revocation of order with or without re-sentencing
7(1) This paragraph applies where a relevant order made by a magistrates' court is in...
8(1) This paragraph applies where — (a) a relevant order made by the Crown Court...
Revocation of order following custodial sentence
9(1) This paragraph applies where— (a) an offender in respect of whom a relevant order...
10Where by virtue of paragraph 9(2)(b) an offender is brought or appears before the Crown...
Supplemental
11(1) On the making under this Part of an order revoking a relevant order, the...
PART IVAMENDMENT OF ORDER
Amendment by reason of change of residence
12(1) This paragraph applies where, at any time while a relevant order is in force...
Amendment of requirements of probation order
13(1) Without prejudice to the provisions of paragraph 12, but subject to sub-paragraph (2), a...
14(1) Where the medical practitioner or other person by whom or under whose direction an...
Extension of community service order
15Where— (a) a community service order is in force in respect of any offender; and...
Supplemental
16No order may be made under paragraph 12, and no application may be made under...
17(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), where a court proposes to exercise its powers under this...
18(1) On the making under this Part of an order amending a relevant order ,...
Schedules 3‐5—Amendments
SCHEDULE 6TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND SAVINGS
1Each of Articles 8 to 11, 13, 15, 19 to 33, 36 and 37 shall...
2Neither paragraph (2) of Article 6, nor the repeal by this Order of section 8...
3An order made under Article 49(5) or 50(2) of the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order...
Schedule 7—Repeals

1996 No. 3160 (N.I. 24)

The Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1996

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
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Order: functions transferred from Secretary of State to Department of Justice (12.4.2010) by Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), arts. 1(2), 4(1)(2), Sch. 1 (with arts. 28-31); S.I. 2010/977, art. 1(2)