Article 2 Amendment to section 133A(5) of the Criminal Justice Act 1988
(1)
The Criminal Justice Act 1988 is amended as follows.
(2)
In section 133A (miscarriages of justice: amount of compensation)—
(a)
in subsection (5), after “overall compensation limit.” for “That” substitute “In the case of compensation payable by the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland, that”;
(b)
after subsection (5) insert—
“(5A)In the case of compensation payable by the Secretary of State, the overall compensation limit for the purposes of subsection (5) is—
(a)£1,300,000 in a case to which section 133Bf1 applies, and
(b)£650,000 in any other case.”
Annotations
Footnotes
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Section 133B was inserted by sections 61(1), (7) and (9) of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (c. 4).