S.I. No. 182/1967:

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACT, 1967 (COMMENCEMENT OF SECTION 3 AND PARTS II AND III) ORDER, 1967

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACT, 1967 (COMMENCEMENT OF SECTION 3 AND PARTS II AND III) ORDER, 1967

I, BRIAN LENIHAN, Minister for Justice, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 2 of the Criminal Procedure Act, 1967 (No. 12 of 1967), hereby order as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as the Criminal Procedure Act, 1967 (Commencement of Section 3 and Parts II and III) Order, 1967.

2. The 1st day of August, 1967, is hereby appointed as the day on which section 3 and Parts II and III of the Criminal Procedure Act, 1967 , shall come into operation.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 19th day of July, 1967.

BRIAN LENIHAN,

Minister for Justice.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The effect of this order is to bring section 3 and Parts II and III of the Criminal Procedure Act, 1967 , into operation on 1st August, 1967. Part II provides a new procedure for the preliminary examination of indictable offences in the District Court and Part III re-enacts with amendments various provisions of the existing law relating to remand. Section 3 makes certain consequential repeals in the existing law.