{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-act-northern-ireland-2011/section-42",
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  "legislation": "nia/2011/24",
  "legislation_title": "Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-act-northern-ireland-2011",
  "path": "section/42",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "Banning orders: content",
  "text": "(1) In this Chapter “banning order” means an order made by a court which prohibits the person who is subject to the order (“P”) from entering any premises for the purpose of attending regulated matches.\n(2) On making a banning order, a court must in ordinary language explain its effect to P.\n(3) A banning order must require P to report at a police station specified in the order within the period of 5 days beginning with the day on which the order is made.\n(4) A banning order must require P to give notification of the events mentioned in subsection (5) to the Chief Constable.\n(5) The events are—\n(a) a change of any of P's names;\n(b) the first use by P after the making of the order of a name for P that was not disclosed by P at the time of the making of the order;\n(c) a change of P's home address;\n(d) P's acquisition of a temporary address;\n(e) a change of P's temporary address or P's ceasing to have one;\n(f) an appeal made by P in relation to the order;\n(g) an application made by P under section 47(1) for termination of the order.\n(6) A notification required by a banning order by virtue of subsection (4) must be given before the end of the period of 7 days beginning with the day on which the event in question occurs and—\n(a) in the case of a change of a name or address or the acquisition of a temporary address, must specify the new name or address; and\n(b) in the case of a first use of a previously undisclosed name, must specify that name.\n(7) Where P is detained in legal custody the requirement under subsection (3) to report at a police station is suspended until P's release from custody.\n(8) If—\n(a) P is released from custody more than 5 days before the expiry of the period for which the order has effect, and\n(b) P was precluded by being in custody from reporting under subsection (3),\nthe order is to have effect as if it required P to report at the police station specified in the order within the period of 5 days beginning with the date of P's release.\n(9) In this section—\n“home address”, in relation to P, means the address of P's sole or main residence;\n“temporary address”, in relation to P, means the address (other than P's home address) of a place at which P intends to reside, or has resided, for a period of at least 4 weeks.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 42 in operation at 1.1.2012 by S.R. 2011/370, art. 3(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2011/24/section/42",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:20:43.017346+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."
}