{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1973/section-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1973/section-18.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1973/15",
  "legislation_title": "Administration of Justice Act 1973",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1973",
  "path": "section/18",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Payment of interpreters in criminal cases (Northern Ireland).",
  "text": "(1) In the Costs in Criminal Cases Act (Northern Ireland) 1968, after section 5 thereof, there shall be inserted the following section—\n“ Fees of required interpreter.\n5A Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Act, where in any criminal proceedings an interpreter is required because of a defendant’s lack of English, the expenses properly incurred on his employment shall, in accordance with rules made pursuant to section 7, be defrayed by the Ministry.”\n(2) Where in any of the following proceedings, that is to say,—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) any proceedings before . . . the High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland in a criminal cause or matter;\n(c) any proceedings on an appeal to the Court of Judicature from a decision in proceedings within . . . (b) above or an application for leave to appeal from such a decision;\nan interpreter is required because of a defendant’s lack of English, the expenses properly incurred on his employment shall be defrayed by the Department of Justice, up to an amount allowed by the High Court or (in the case of proceedings in the Court of Judicature) by the Court of Judicature.\nIn this subsection “defendant” means the person (whether convicted or not) who is alleged to be guilty of an offence.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 18(2)(a) repealed by Criminal Appeal (Northern Ireland) Act 1980 (c. 47, SIF 38), s. 51(2), Sch. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978 (c. 23), s. 123(2), Sch. 7 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(2) substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 40, 148, Sch. 9 para. 25; S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 18: words substituted (1.10.2009) in each place in Act by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59, 148, Sch. 11 para. 6; S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words repealed by Criminal Appeal (Northern Ireland) Act 1980 (c. 47, SIF 38), s. 51(2), Sch. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(2) substituted (12.4.2010) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), arts. 1(2), 12, Sch. para. 12(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(2) substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 40, 148, Sch. 9 para. 25; S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "S. 18(3) repealed by Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), Sch. 6 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of ss. 7(2), 14(1), 18(1) and Sch. 2 Pt. II and part of s. 1(9) is in the form in which it was originall enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and, except as specified does not reflect any amendments or repeals made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1973/15/section/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:47:48.940440+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}