http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1996/3160/article/1/made

The Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1996

Probation

Government Printer for Northern Ireland

2013-07-10

NORTHERN IRELAND

This Order—makes further provision with respect to the powers of the courts to deal with offenders, including fresh provision with respect to probation and community service orders and to release on licence of sex offenders;makes provision for 28 day remands;makes provision about the jurisdiction of courts in Northern Ireland in relation to certain offences of dishonesty and blackmail;makes provision for an accused to be open to question as to his own character if he impugns the character of a deceased victim of the alleged crime;abolishes the corroboration rules;makes provision relating to the verdict of insanity or unfitness to plead and provides for a trial of the facts in the case of a defendant found to be unfit to plead;creates an offence of witness and juror intimidation;creates new offences with respect to certain knives and other dangerous weapons; andenables rules to provide for the furnishing of information by the prosecution in criminal cases.