{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-committal-reform-act-northern-ireland-2022/schedule/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-committal-reform-act-northern-ireland-2022/schedule/paragraph-8.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2022/4",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice (Committal Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-committal-reform-act-northern-ireland-2022",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The following provisions are repealed—\n(a) in Article 2(3), in the definition of “summary proceeding”, the words “a preliminary investigation or” and “investigation or”;\n(b) in Article 16(1)(a) the words “or a preliminary investigation”;\n(c) Article 31.\n(2) In Article 32(1) for the words from the beginning to “together with” in sub-paragraph (a) substitute—\n“(1) Where a preliminary inquiry into an indictable offence is to be heldby a magistrates’ court, the prosecution shall—\n(a) send”.\n(3) The following provisions are repealed—\n(a) in Article 32(1)(b) the words “a copy of that notice together with”;\n(b) Article 32(3) and (4)(a);\n(c) in Article 33(1) the words “to the like extent as oral evidence to the like effect by that person”;\n(d) in Article 35 the words “a preliminary investigation or” and “investigation or”;\n(e) Article 37(1);\n(f) in Article 37(5) the words “investigation or”;\n(g) in Article 39(1) the words “investigation or”;\n(h) in Article 42(1) the words from “or the deposition taken” to “on his behalf,”;\n(i) in Article 42(3) the words “(other than a statement which is to be disregarded under Article 34(2))”;\n(j) in Article 44(1) and (2) the words “investigation or”;\n(k) in Article 46(1) the words “whether any evidence shall then have been given or not”;\n(l) in Article 46(2) the words “depositions shall be taken or, as the case may require,”;\n(m) in Schedule 4 in paragraphs 1 and 3 the words “the preliminary investigation or”;\n(n) in Schedule 5, paragraph 3.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 8 not in operation at Royal Assent, see s. 5(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. para. 8 in operation at 17.10.2022 by S.R. 2022/221, art. 2(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2022/4/schedule/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:19:31.644087+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."
}