{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-northern-ireland-order-1989/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-northern-ireland-order-1989/introduction.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": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "2nd August 1989",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "mod. by 2005 c. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Order applied (with modifications) (19.5.2015) by The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (National Crime Agency and Proceeds of Crime) (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/798), art. 6, Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Order applied (29.8.2023) by 2009 c. 1, s. 206P(7)-(9) (as inserted by Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (c. 29), s. 86(2)(d), Sch. 9 para. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Order extended by Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2003 (c. 6), Sch. 4 para. 23A (as inserted (prosp.) by Policing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/912 (N.I. 6)), arts. 1(2), 6(2), Sch. 4 para. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Order power to apply (with modifications) conferred (21.7.2009) by Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009 (c. 11), ss. 23, 58(1) (with saving in s. 36(4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Order: functions of Secretary of State transferred to Department of Justice (12.4.2010) by Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), arts. 1(2), 4(1)(2), Sch. 1 (with arts. 28-31); S.I. 2010/977, art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Order: functions of Lord Chancellor transferred to Department of Justice (12.4.2010) by Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), arts. 1(2), 15(1), Sch. 17 para. 41 (with arts. 15(6), 28-31); S.I. 2010/977, art. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1989/1341/introduction",
    "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."
}