{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-act-northern-ireland-2011/section-48",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-act-northern-ireland-2011/section-48.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2011/24",
  "legislation_title": "Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-act-northern-ireland-2011",
  "path": "section/48",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Information about banning orders",
  "text": "(1) Where a court makes a banning order the appropriate officer of the court—\n(a) shall give a copy of it to the person to whom it relates (“P”);\n(b) shall (as soon as reasonably practicable) send a copy of it to the Chief Constable and to any prescribed person;\n(c) shall (as soon as reasonably practicable) send a copy of it to the police station (addressed to the officer responsible for the police station) at which P is to report under section 42(3); and\n(d) in a case where P is detained in legal custody, shall (as soon as reasonably practicable) send a copy of it to the person in whose custody P is detained.\n(2) Where a court terminates a banning order under section 47, the appropriate officer of the court—\n(a) shall give a copy of the terminating order to P;\n(b) shall (as soon as reasonably practicable) send a copy of it to the Chief Constable and to any prescribed person; and\n(c) in a case where P is detained in legal custody, shall (as soon as reasonably practicable) send a copy of the terminating order to the person in whose custody P is detained.\n(3) Where P is released from custody and, in a case where P has not reported under section 42(3) to a police station, is released more than 5 days before the expiry of the banning order, the person in whose custody P is shall (as soon as reasonably practicable) give notice of P's release to the Chief Constable.\n(4) In this section—\n“the appropriate officer”—\n(a)in relation to a magistrates' court, means the clerk of petty sessions;\n(b)in relation to the Crown Court, means the chief clerk;\n“prescribed” means prescribed by order made by the Department.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 48 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/48",
    "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."
}