{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-appeal-act-1995/schedule-1/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-appeal-act-1995/schedule-1/paragraph-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/35",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Appeal Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-appeal-act-1995",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) As soon as possible after the end of each financial year of the Commission, the Commission shall send to the Secretary of State and the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland a report on the discharge of their functions during that year.\n(2) Such a report may include an account of the working of the provisions of sections 9 to 25 and recommendations relating to any of those provisions.\n(3) The Secretary of State shall lay before each House of Parliament, and cause to be published, a copy of every report sent to him under sub-paragraph (1).\n(4) The Department of Justice shall lay before the Northern Ireland Assembly a copy of every report sent to the Department of Justice under sub-paragraph (1).\n(5) Section 41(3) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 applies for the purposes of sub-paragraph (4) in relation to the laying of a copy of a report as it applies in relation to the laying of a statutory document under an enactment.",
  "extent": "E+W+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 8(1) inserted (12.4.2010) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), art. 1(2), Sch. 6 para. 8(3)(a) (with arts. 28-31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 8(4)(5) inserted (12.4.2010) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), art. 1(2), Sch. 6 para. 8(3)(b) (with arts. 28-31)"
    }
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:32:52.082882+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."
}