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The Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (Commencement No.2) Order 2010

S.I. 2010/28 · Made 6 January 2010

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Criminal Law, Northern Ireland

Made 6 January 2010

The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 182 (5) of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009f1.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2009 c.25

Contents

  1. 1Citation
  2. 2Commencement
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation

This Order may be cited as the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2010.

2Commencement

The following provisions of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 shall come into force on the 12th January 2010–

(a)

section 139 (dangerous offenders: terrorism offences (Northern Ireland));

(b)

in section 177 (consequential etc amendments and transitional and saving provisions), subsection (2) (transitional, transitory and saving provisions) so far as it relates to paragraph 38 of Schedule 22; and

(c)

paragraph 38 of Schedule 22.

Signature

Paul Goggins

Minister of State

Northern Ireland Office

6 January 2010

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force on 12th January 2010 section 139 of the 2009 Act and associated transitional provisions. That section amends Schedules 1 and 2 to the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 to insert various terrorism offences into the list of offences treated as serious offences for the purposes of certain sentencing provisions in that Order. This will apply only in relation to offences committed on or after 12th January 2010.