{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-50",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-50.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/50",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "50",
  "heading": "Procedure in relation to finding of insanity",
  "text": "In Article 50 of the 1986 NI 4. Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (procedure in relation to finding of insanity)—\n(a) in paragraph (1)(a) for “evidence” there shall be substituted “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 (2) and (3) shall be omitted.",
  "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/50",
    "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."
}