{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-northern-ireland-act-2002/section-45",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-northern-ireland-act-2002/section-45.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/26",
  "legislation_title": "Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-northern-ireland-act-2002",
  "path": "section/45",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "45",
  "heading": "Chief Inspector of Criminal Justice",
  "text": "(1) There is to be an office of Chief Inspector of Criminal Justice in Northern Ireland.\n(2) The Department of Justice must appoint a person to be the Chief Inspector.\n(3) Schedule 8 makes further provision about the Chief Inspector.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 45(2) substituted (12.4.2010) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), art. 1(2), Sch. 13 para. 4(2) (with arts. 28-31)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/26/section/45",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:19:23.998184+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."
}