{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-northern-ireland-act-2004/schedule-3/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-northern-ireland-act-2004/schedule-3/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/4",
  "legislation_title": "Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-northern-ireland-act-2004",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), a court security officer may retain an article which was—\n(a) surrendered in response to a request under paragraph 4(1), or\n(b) seized under paragraph 4(2),\nuntil the time when the person who surrendered it, or from whom it was seized, is leaving the relevant building.\n(2) If a court security officer reasonably believes that the article may be evidence of, or in relation to, an offence, he may retain it until—\n(a) the time when the person who surrendered it, or from whom it was seized, is leaving the relevant building, or\n(b) the end of the permitted period,\nwhichever is later.\n(3) “The permitted period” means such period, not exceeding 24 hours from the time the article was surrendered or seized, as will enable the court security officer to draw the article to the attention of a constable.\n(4) This paragraph is subject to paragraph 5A.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 5(4) added (6.4.2010) by Coroners and Justice Act 2009, (c. 25), {ss. 147(2)}, 182(4)(c) (with s. 180, Sch. 22 para. 44(2)); S.I. 2010/816, art. 2, Sch. para. 10"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/4/schedule/3/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:28.944206+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."
}