SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 4Offence of non-fatal strangulation or asphyxiation: consequential amendments

Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (NI 12)

1

In Article 53A (qualifying offences for particular investigative purposes), in paragraph (2)—

(a)

the second of the two sub-paragraphs numbered as (t) is renumbered as (u),

(b)

after the second of those two sub-paragraphs insert—

“(v)

an offence under section 28 of the Justice (Sexual Offences and Trafficking Victims) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (non-fatal strangulation or asphyxiation).”.