Article 4 Service of ordersI1

Northern Ireland

(1)

As soon as reasonably practicable after:

(a)

the making of a banning order under section 41 of the 2011 Act;

(b)

the variation of a banning order under section 46 of the 2011 Act; or

(c)

the termination of a banning under section 47 of the 2011 Act,

the clerk of petty sessions shall serve a copy of that order on the parties set out in paragraph (2).

(2)

An order under paragraph (1) shall be served on:

(a)

(b)

the Chief Constable;

(c)

the prosecution;

(d)

the police station (addressed to the officer responsible for the police station) at which P is to report under section 42(3) of the 2011 Act;

(e)

(in a case where P is detained in legal custody) the person in whose custody P is detained; and

(f)

any prescribed person.

(3)

An order under paragraph (1) shall be served on:

(a)

(i)

if present in court, in person if practicable; or

(ii)

otherwise by sending it by ordinary first class post to P at his last known address (in which case the order shall be deemed to have been received by him in the ordinary course of post unless P proves that he did not receive it); and

(b)

all other parties by ordinary first class post.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Rule 4 in operation at 1.1.2012, see rule 1 and S.R. 2011/370, art. 3(d)