The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 No. 976

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 15 U.K. Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005

22.  In section 89 (defences to liability under section 88)— U.K.

(a) in subsection (5) omit “or in Northern Ireland”; and

(b) after subsection (6) insert—

“(6A) The Department of Justice in Northern Ireland may by order make provision prescribing circumstances in which a person who discloses information as mentioned in subsection (1) or (2) of section 88 is not guilty in Northern Ireland of an offence under that subsection.”

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 15 para. 22 in force at 12.4.2010, see art. 1(2)