CRIMINAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 14 Commencement, savings, and other general provisions.

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CRIMINAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 14

Commencement, savings, and other general provisions.

14.(1) This Act shall come into force on 29th August 1967; and in so far as it
affects any matter of procedure or evidence or the jurisdiction or powers of
any court in relation to offences, it shall have effect in relation to
proceedings on indictment for an offence (except as provided by the following
subsections) if, but only if, the person charged with the offence is arraigned
on or after that day.

(2) Subject to subsection (3) where a person is arraigned after the
commencement of this Act on an indictment for a felony committed before that
commencement, the offence shall be deemed always to have been a misdemeanour
and, notwithstanding that the indictment is framed as an indictment for
felony, shall be deemed to be charged as a misdemeanour in the indictment.

(3) Where a person is arraigned after the commencement of this Act on an
indictment charging him with being an accessory after the fact to a felony
committed before that commencement, that felony shall, as regards that person,
be deemed to be an arrestable offence, and notwithstanding that the indictment
is so framed it shall be deemed to charge that person with an offence under
section 4(1) and section 4(4) shall not apply.

(4) On an indictment signed before the commencement of this Act, a person may
be found guilty of any offence of which he could have been found guilty on
that indictment if this Act had not been passed, but not of any other offence;
and where a person has been tried for or convicted of felony before the
commencement of this Act, the trial or conviction may be proved in any manner
in which it could have been proved if this Act had not been passed.

(5) Subject to any express amendment or repeal made by this Act, the following
provisions have effect in relation to any enactment passed before this Act:

(a)any enactment creating an offence by directing it to be felony shall be
read as directing it to be an offence, and nothing in this Act shall affect
the operation of any reference to an offence in the enactments specially
relating to that offence by reason only of the reference being in terms no
longer applicable after the commencement of this Act;

(b)any enactment referring to felonious stealing or to felonious taking shall
be read as referring merely to stealing;

(c)nothing in this Act shall affect the punishment provided for an offence by
the enactments specially relating to that offence.

Subs.(6) rep. by 1968 c.10 (NI) s.11 sch.

(7) In this Act references to felony shall not be taken as including treason;
but the procedure on trials for treason or misprision of treason shall be the
same as the procedure as altered by this Act on trials for murder.

(8) In this Act "enactment" means any statutory provision within the meaning
of paragraph (f) of section 1 of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland)
1954.

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CRIMINAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 14