{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-northern-ireland-act-2002/section-85",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-northern-ireland-act-2002/section-85.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/26",
  "legislation_title": "Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-northern-ireland-act-2002",
  "path": "section/85",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "85",
  "heading": "Minor and consequential amendments",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 12 makes minor and consequential amendments in enactments and instruments.\n(2) The Department of Justice may by order make in any other enactment or instrument (whenever passed or made) such amendments as appear to the Department of Justice to be appropriate in consequence of any provision made by Part 4.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 85(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. 20(2)(a) (with arts. 28-31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 85(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. 20(2)(b) (with arts. 28-31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 85 partly in force: s. 85 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 87; s. 85(1) in force at 15.10.2002 for certain purposes by S.R. 2002/319, art. 2, Sch.; s. 85 in force for certain further purposes at 1.11.2003 by S.R. 2003/416, art. 3, s. 85(1) in force for certain further purposes and s. 85(2) in force at 1.12.2003 by S.R. 2003/488, art. 2, Sch.; s. 85(1) in force for certain further purposes at 1.9.2004 by S.R. 2004/301, art. 2; s. 85(1) in force for certain further purposes at 1.1.2005 by S.R. 2004/502, art. 2; s. 85(1) in force for certain further purposes at 13.6.2005 by S.R. 2005/281, art. 2, Sch. 1; s. 85(1) in force for certain further purposes at 30.8.2005 by S.R. 2005/391, art. 2, Sch.; s. 85(1) in force for certain further purposes at 3.4.2006 by S.R. 2006/124, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 85(1) in force at 12.4.2010 for specified purposes by S.R. 2010/113, art. 2, Sch. para. 17"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/26/section/85",
    "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."
}