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Article 2 Amendment to section 133A(5) of the Criminal Justice Act 1988

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

(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.”

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Footnotes

f1

Section 133B was inserted by sections 61(1), (7) and (9) of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (c. 4).