Part 4Police powers etc.
Chapter 2Provisions modifying and supplementing police powers
Sex offenders
72Sex offenders: Northern Ireland
1
Article 6 of the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/ 2839 (N.I. 20)) (sex offender orders) shall be amended as follows.
2
In paragraph (1) (application for a sex offender order)—
a
for “in Northern Ireland” there shall be substituted “who he believes is in, or is intending to come to, Northern Ireland”;
b
for “the public” there shall be substituted “the public in the United Kingdom, or any particular members of that public,”.
3
In paragraph (2) (which identifies the court to which an application must be made), for the words following “1981 to” there shall be substituted “any court of summary jurisdiction”.
4
In paragraph (4) (the prohibitions which may be imposed), for “the public” there shall be substituted “the public in the United Kingdom, or any particular members of that public,”.
5
In paragraph (7) (discharge of orders), after “parties” there shall be inserted “and subject to paragraph (7A)”.
6
After that paragraph there shall be inserted—
7A
Where a court makes a sex offender order in relation to a person who is already subject to such an order (whether made by that court or another), the earlier order is discharged by the making of the subsequent one.
7
Subsection (4) applies in relation to applications and orders under Article 6 of the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1998, whether made before or after the coming into force of this section.