1998 No. 6
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
The Criminal Justice (Serious Fraud) (Northern Ireland) Order 1988 (Notice of Transfer) (Amendment) Regulations 1998
Made 14th January 1998
To be laid before Parliament
Coming into operation 14th February 1998

The Attorney General, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by Article 4(7) of the Criminal Justice (Serious Fraud) (Northern Ireland) Order 1988, hereby makes the following regulations:—
S.I.1988/1846 (N.I. 16)

1 Citation and commencement
These regulations may be cited as the Criminal Justice (Serious Fraud) (Northern Ireland) Order 1988 (Notice of Transfer) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 and shall come into operation on 14th February 1998.

2 Interpretation
In these regulations—
“criminal investigation” has the meaning specified in section 1(4) of the 1996 Act;
“the principal regulations” means the Criminal Justice (Serious Fraud) (Northern Ireland) Order 1988 (Notice of Transfer) Regulations 1989;
“the 1996 Act” means the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996.
S.R. 1989 No. 338, as amended by S.R. 1989 No. 467 and S.R. 1994 No. 344
1996 c. 25

3 Amendment of the principal regulations
Paragraph 8 of Form 2 in the Schedule to the principal regulations shall cease to have effect in relation to alleged offences into which no criminal investigation has begun before the commencement of Part I of the 1996 Act.
John Morris Her Majesty’s Attorney General 14th January 1998

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)
These regulations revoke paragraph 8 of Form 2 in the Schedule to the Criminal Justice (Serious Fraud) (Northern Ireland) Order 1988 (Notice of Transfer) Regulations 1989 which informed the accused of the requirement to give notice of particulars of an alibi in accordance with section 1 of the Evidence of Alibi Act (Northern Ireland) 1972. By virtue of regulation 1, the regulations come into operation on 14th February 1998 in relation to alleged offences into which no criminal investigation has begun before 1st January 1998, the date of commencement of Part I of the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996.