{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-northern-ireland-order-1989/article-79A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-northern-ireland-order-1989/article-79A.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1989/1341",
  "legislation_title": "The Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-northern-ireland-order-1989",
  "path": "article/79A",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "79A",
  "heading": "Rule where accused’s spouse or civil partner not compellable",
  "text": "The failure of the spouse or civil partner of a person charged in any proceedings to give evidence in the proceedings shall not be made the subject of any comment by the prosecution.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 79A inserted (4.5.2010) by Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/2789 (N.I. 8)), arts. 1(2), 40(1), Sch. 1 para. 3(5); S.R. 2010/142, art. 2, Sch. paras. 2, 5(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 79A substituted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), ss. 261(3), 263(10)(d), Sch. 29 para. 89(a); S.I. 2005/3255, art. 2(1)(2), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 79A inserted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), ss. 261(3), 263(10)(d), Sch. 29 para. 89(b); S.I. 2005/3255, art. 2(1)(2), Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted in earlier affecting provision 2015 c. 9 (N.I.), Sch. 2 para. 6(3)(b)",
      "affecting": "nia/2022/4",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice (Committal Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1989/1341/article/79A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:47:15.355333+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."
}