{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/costs-in-criminal-cases-act-northern-ireland-1968/section-5A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/costs-in-criminal-cases-act-northern-ireland-1968/section-5A.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1968/10",
  "legislation_title": "Costs in Criminal Cases Act (Northern Ireland) 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/costs-in-criminal-cases-act-northern-ireland-1968",
  "path": "section/5A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5A",
  "heading": "Fees of required interpreter.",
  "text": "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 Department of Justice.]",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1973 c.15"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 5A substituted (12.4.2010) by Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), arts. 1(2), 12, Sch. 14 para. 7 (with arts. 28-31); S.I. 2010/977, art. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1968/10/section/5A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:30:16.660050+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."
}