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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-northern-ireland-order-2008-commencement-no-8-order-2015/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2015/255",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 (Commencement No. 8) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-northern-ireland-order-2008-commencement-no-8-order-2015",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Criminal Law\nMade 19th May 2015\nThe Department of Justice makes the following Order, in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 1(4) of the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 and now vested in it .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2008/1216 (N.I. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Article 4(1) of and paragraph 32 of Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976) transferred the functions of the Secretary of State under Article 1(4) of the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 to the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/255/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:01:15.803421+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."
}