Source: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1945/15
Timestamp: 2019-07-22 02:33:44
Document Index: 280895946

Matched Legal Cases: ['art. 2', 'art. 2', 'art. 2', 'art. 2', 'art. 2', 'art. 2', 'art. 2']

Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1945 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 22 July 2019. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
F6 18Procedure on charge.N.I.
(1)Subject as hereafter in this sub-section provided, any person who, with intent to destroy the life of a child then capable of being born alive, by any wilful act causes a child to die before it has an existence independent of its mother, shall be guilty of felony, to wit, of child destruction, and shall be liable on conviction thereof on indictment to penal servitudeF10 for life:
F101953 c.14 (NI)
(1)Where upon the trial of any person for the murder or manslaughter of any child, or for infanticide, or for an offence under section fifty-eight of the Offences against the Person Act, 1861 [1861 c.100] (which relates to administering drugs or using instruments to procure abortion), the jury are of opinion that the person charged is not guilty of murder, manslaughter or infanticide, or of an offence under the said section fifty-eight, as the case may be, but that he is shown by the evidence to be guilty of the [F11 offence] of child destruction, the jury may find him guilty of that [F11 offence], and thereupon the person convicted shall be liable to be punished as if he had been convicted upon an indictment for child destruction.
(2)Where upon the trial of any person for the [F11 offence] of child destruction the jury are of opinion that the person charged is not guilty of that [F11 offence], but that he is shown by the evidence to be guilty of an offence under the said section fifty-eight of the Offences against the Person Act, 1861 [1861 c.100] , the jury may find him guilty of that offence, and thereupon the person convicted shall be liable to be punished as if he had been convicted upon an indictment under that section.
F111967 c.18 (NI)
and if any person acts in contravention of this section he shall, on summary conviction, be liable in respect of each offence to a fine not exceeding[F12 level 3 on the standard scale].
[F13(a)the expression “court” means any court of justice (including the court of a coroner), apart from the Supreme Court;]
F13S. 29(2)(a) substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 47(2), 148(1); S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(b)
(1)Subject to the provisions of this section, where a fine is imposed by, or a recognizance is forfeited before, [F14 the Crown Court or a county court], the court may by order—
[F15(e)on the application of the person liable to make the payment, allow further time for payment or vary an order for payment by instalments [F16, unless there is a collection order in relation to the amount concerned] .]
[F17(2)The periods set out in the second column of the following Table shall be the maximum periods of imprisonment or detention which may be fixed under subsection (1)(c) applicable respectively to the amounts set out opposite thereto—
[F17(4A)Where—
the chief clerk may make an application in relation to the company under[F18Article 104 of, or paragraph 13 of Schedule B1 to, the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (winding up or administration)].]
[F19(4B)In a case where there is a collection order, the power to make the application referred to in subsection (4A) is instead exercisable by the collection officer responsible for securing compliance with the order.]
(5)Any sums received by a governor of a prison under paragraph ( c) of [F20subsection (4)] shall be transmitted by him to the officer responsible for the recovery of sums due in respect of the fine or the recognizance.
(7)This section shall not apply to a fine imposed by a [F14 county court] on appeal against a decision of a court of summary jurisdiction.
[F21(8)Subsection (1)(c) does not apply where the person concerned is a child except where detention would be permitted in reliance on Article 46C of the Criminal Justice (Children) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998; and subsection (3) does not apply to a child.]
[F22(8)In this section, “collection order” means an order under section3 of the Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2016.]
F141978 c.23
F151996 NI 24
F16Words in s. 35(1)(e) inserted (1.6.2018) by Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 21), s. 61(2), Sch. 2 para. 1(1); S.R. 2018/99, art. 2(c)
F171994 NI 15
F18Words in s. 35(4A) substituted (27.3.2006) by Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/1455 (N.I. 10)), arts. 1(3), 3(3), Sch. 2 para. 5; S.R. 2006/21, art. 2 (with transitional provisions and savings in S.R. 2006/22, arts. 2 - 7)
F19S. 35(4B) inserted (1.6.2018) by Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 21), s. 61(2), Sch. 2 para. 1(2); S.R. 2018/99, art. 2(c)
F20Words in s. 35(5) substituted (1.6.2018) by Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 21), s. 61(2), Sch. 2 para. 1(3); S.R. 2018/99, art. 2(c)
F21S. 35(8) inserted (1.6.2018) by Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 21), ss. 30(5), 61(2) (with s. 30(12)); S.R. 2018/99, art. 2(a)
F22S. 35(8) inserted (1.6.2018) by Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 21), s. 61(2), Sch. 2 para. 1(4); S.R. 2018/99, art. 2(c)
“Act of 1851 F23” has the meaning assigned to it by section two of this Act;
“Act of 1935 F24” has the meaning assigned to it by section two of this Act;
“resident magistrate” means a resident magistrate within the meaning of the Act of 1935F25;
(2)In this Act and in the Act of 1935 the expression “constable” shall be construed as including a head-constableF26 and a sergeant.
F231851 (c.93)
F241935 (c.13)
F251964 c.21 (NI)
F26SRO (NI) 1970/111
(2)Sections two to eighteen, sections twenty to twenty-three, …F27 of this Act shall be included among the enactments which may be cited together as the Summary Jurisdiction Acts (Northern Ireland).
F27SLR 1976