Appointed day2

8th November 2004 is the day appointed for the coming into force of the following provisions of Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999:

a

section 46 (power to restrict reports about certain adult witnesses in criminal proceedings);

b

section 47 (restrictions on reporting directions under Chapter I or II)

c

section 48(c), and (e) and paragraphs 4 to 15 of Schedule 2 (amendments relating to other reporting restrictions);

d

sections 49, 50, 51 and 52 in so far as they have effect for the purposes of sections 46 and 47 of that Act;

e

in Schedule 6, the entries relating to –

i

the Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 19782;

ii

the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 19943, and section 67(3) in so far as it relates to those entries;

iii

Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 19764;

iv

Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 19925;

f

paragraph 6 of Schedule 7, in so far as it relates to section 46, and section 67(4) in so far as it relates to paragraph 6.