{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-48",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-48.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1996/3160",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-northern-ireland-order-1996",
  "path": "article/48",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Procedure in relation to unfitness to be tried",
  "text": "In Article 49 of the 1986 NI 4. Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (procedure in relation to unfitness to be tried)—\n(a) after paragraph (4) there shall be inserted—\n“(4A) A jury shall not make a determination under paragraph (4) except on the oral evidence of a medical practitioner appointed for the purposes of Part II by the Commission and on the written or oral evidence of one other medical practitioner” ;\n(b) paragraphs (5) to (8) shall be omitted;\n(c) in paragraph (9) for “Article 51(6)” there shall be substituted “Articles 49A, 50A and 51(6)”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1996/3160/article/48",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:41:32.090681+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."
}