{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-appeal-northern-ireland-act-1980/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-appeal-northern-ireland-act-1980/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/47",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Appeal (Northern Ireland) Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-appeal-northern-ireland-act-1980",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Grounds for allowing appeal against conviction.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Court of Appeal—\n(a) shall allow an appeal against conviction if it thinks that the conviction is unsafe; and\n(b) shall dismiss such an appeal in any other case.\n(2) If the Court allows an appeal against conviction it shall quash the conviction.\n(3) An order of the Court quashing a conviction shall, except when under section 6 of this Act the appellant is ordered to be retried, operate as a direction to the chief clerk acting for the court of trial to enter, instead of the record of conviction, a judgment and verdict of acquittal.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 2(1) substituted (1.1.1996) by 1995 c. 35, s. 2(2); S.I. 1995/3061, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 2(1) modified (4.5.2010) by The Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/2789 (N.I. 8)), arts. 1(2), 34(5); S.R. 2010/142, art. 2, Sch. para. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/47/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:15:13.972942+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."
}