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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-from-stalking-act-northern-ireland-2022/section-8",
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  "legislation": "nia/2022/17",
  "legislation_title": "Protection from Stalking Act (Northern Ireland) 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-from-stalking-act-northern-ireland-2022",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Power to make orders",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where the Chief Constable has applied under section 7 to a court of summary jurisdiction for a stalking protection order against a person (“D”).\n(2) The court may make the order if satisfied that—\n(a) D has carried out acts associated with stalking,\n(b) D poses a risk associated with stalking to another person, and\n(c) the proposed order is necessary to protect another person from such a risk (whether or not the other person was a victim of the acts mentioned in paragraph (a)).\n(3) The court may include a prohibition or requirement in the stalking protection order only if satisfied that the prohibition or requirement is necessary to protect the other person from a risk associated with stalking.\n(4) Prohibitions or requirements must, so far as practicable, be such as to avoid—\n(a) conflict with D’s religious beliefs, and\n(b) interference with any times at which D normally works or attends an educational establishment.\n(5) The court may not include any prohibition or requirement in the order which is incompatible with a prohibition or requirement in a stalking protection order to which D is already subject (whether made by that court or another).\n(6) A prohibition or requirement, unless expressly limited to a particular locality, is to be complied with—\n(a) in all parts of the United Kingdom, and\n(b) if D resides in Northern Ireland or was resident in Northern Ireland when the application for the order was made or is a UK national, also everywhere outside the United Kingdom.\n(7) It does not matter—\n(a) whether the acts mentioned in subsection (2)(a) were carried out in a part of the United Kingdom or elsewhere, or\n(b) whether they were carried out before or after the coming into operation of this section.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 8 not in operation at Royal Assent, see s. 22(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 8 in operation at 19.10.2023 by S.R. 2023/174, art. 2"
    }
  ],
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    },
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      "affecting_title": "Crime and Policing Act 2026"
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      "affecting_title": "Crime and Policing Act 2026"
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2022/17/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:19:22.116321+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."
}