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The Juries Regulations (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016

S.R. 2016/400 · Made 15 November 2016

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Justice

Made 15th November 2016

Coming into operation 14th December 2016

The Department of Justice, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 6(2) and (3) of the Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015f1, makes the following Order.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2015 c.9 (N.I.)

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Amendment to the Juries Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Juries Regulations (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 and shall come into operation on 14th December 2016.

2Amendment to the Juries Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

(1)

The Juries Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996f1 are amended as follows.

(2)

In regulation 4—

(a)

for paragraph (2), substitute—

“(2)

The Divisional Jurors List for each division may be divided into Parts as directed by the Department of Justice.”;

(b)

in paragraph (3), after “Divisional Jurors Lists”, insert “where”;

(c)

omit paragraph (4).

(3)

Omit Schedule 1A.

Signature

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Justice on 15th November 2016

L.S.

Claire Sugden

Minister of Justice

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Juries Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 (S.R. 1996 No.269) (“the 1996 Regulations”) in consequence of the provisions in Part 1 of the Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (“the Act”) which create a single jurisdiction for county courts and magistrates’ courts, and provide for Northern Ireland to be divided into administrative court divisions by direction of the Department of Justice.

Regulation 4 of the 1996 Regulations provides for the Divisional Jurors Lists to be divided into Parts, each containing the names of jurors living in local government wards specified in tables set out in Schedule 1A to the 1996 Regulations.

Article 2 of this Order amends the 1996 Regulations so that the Divisional Jurors Lists may instead be divided into Parts as directed by the Department of Justice.