SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 36Further minor and consequential amendments

Part 4Trials on indictment without a jury

Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/1341 (N.I. 12))

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1

Article 75 of the Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (confessions of mentally handicapped persons) is amended as follows.

2

In paragraph (1) after “indictment” there is inserted “ with a jury ”.

3

In paragraph (2) after “indictment” there is inserted “ with a jury ”.

4

After paragraph (2) there is inserted—

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In any case where at the trial on indictment without a jury of a person for an offence it appears to the court that a warning under paragraph (1) would be required if the trial were with a jury, the court shall treat the case as one in which there is a special need for caution before convicting the accused on his confession.