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  "legislation": "nisr/2005/109",
  "legislation_title": "The Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002 (Commencement No. 8) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-northern-ireland-act-2002-commencement-no-8-order-2005",
  "path": "schedule",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "PROVISIONS OF THE JUSTICE (NORTHERN IRELAND) ACT 2002 COMING INTO FORCE ON 1st APRIL 2005",
  "text": "Provision of the Act\nSubject matter of the provision\nSection 9(12)\nLay magistrates: exercise of functions by Lord Chief Justice, Lord Justices of Appeal, judges of the High Court and county court judges\nSection 10(1) to (5) and (7)\nTransfer of functions of justices of the peace\nSection 10(6) to the extent necessary to bring into force the provisions of Schedule 4 specified below\nSection 11\nTransfer of functions of lay panellists\nSection 86 to the extent necessary to bring into force the provisions of Schedule 13 specified below\nRepeals and revocations\nSchedule 4, paragraphs 1 to 13, 15 to 16, 17(1), (3) and (4), and 18 to 40\nFunctions of Justices of the Peace\nSchedule 13 –\nthe entry in respect of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954;\nthe entry in respect of section 178(3) of and paragraphs 1, 2A, 3(2), 6 and 8(a) of Schedule 2 to the Children and Young Persons Act (Northern Ireland) 1968;\nthe entry in respect of section 51(5) of the Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978;\nthe entry in respect of the Interpretation Act 1978;\nthe entry in respect of Articles 18, 34, 152 and 158A(3) of and Schedule 1 to the Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981;\nthe entry in respect of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990;\nthe entry in respect of the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991;\nthe entry in respect of the Juries (Northern Ireland) Order 1996;\nthe entry in respect of the Access to Justice Act 1999;\nthe entry in respect of the Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1999;\nthe entry in respect of Schedule 1 to the Freedom of Information Act 2000, insofar as it relates to the Advisory Committee on Juvenile Court Lay Panel (Northern Ireland);\nthe entry in respect of Schedule 6 to the Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002, insofar as it relates to members of panels formed under Schedule 2 to the Children and Young Persons Act (Northern Ireland) 1968.\nRepeals and revocations",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1968 c. 34 (N.I.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1978 c. 23"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1978 c. 30"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/1675 (N.I. 26)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1990 c. 41"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/762 (N.I. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/1141 (N.I. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "1999 c. 22"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f10",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/2789 (N.I. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f11",
      "text": "2000 c. 36"
    }
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