The Criminal Justice (European Protection Order) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

N.I.

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2015 No. 353

Criminal Law

The Criminal Justice (European Protection Order) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

Made

8th October 2015

Coming into operation

2nd November 2015

The Department of Justice, being designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 (1) in relation to criminal justice (2), makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by that section.

Citation and commencementN.I.

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Criminal Justice (European Protection Order) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 and come into operation on 2nd November 2015.

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 1 in operation at 2.11.2015, see reg. 1

Amendments to the Criminal Justice (European Protection Order) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2014N.I.

2.—(1) The Criminal Justice (European Protection Order) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2014 are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 3 (Interpretation - Part 2), in paragraph (1) -

(a)in the definition of “European protection order” for “means an order made in accordance with” substitute “has the meaning given by”; and

(b)in the definition of “protection measure”, in subparagraph (c), for “approaching the protected person to within a particular distance” substitute “approaching the protected person whether at all or within a particular distance”.

(3) In regulation 10 (Reviewing, modifying and revoking a protection measure and related European protection order), in the heading, for “Reviewing” substitute “Renewing”.

(4) In regulation 14 (Procedural requirements relating to the making of a restraining order), in paragraph (1), subparagraph (a), for “member” substitute “issuing”.

(5) In regulation 17 (Modification of the European protection order (and giving effect to a modified order)), in paragraph (6) for “the appropriate article” substitute “that Article”.

Commencement Information

I2Reg. 2 in operation at 2.11.2015, see reg. 1

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Justice on 8th October 2015

Legal seal

David Ford

Minister of Justice

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

These Regulations make minor technical amendments to the Criminal Justice (European Protection Order) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2014.

(1)

1972 c. 68; section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) and (b) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51), and by section 3(3) of, and Part 1 of the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7).