The Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 No. 3160 (NI. 24)

PART IV COURSE OF JUSTICE: EVIDENCE, PROCEDURE, ETC.

Insanity and unfitness to be tried

Procedure in relation to finding of insanity

50.  In Article 50 of the [1986 NI 4.] Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (procedure in relation to finding of insanity)—

(a) in paragraph (1)(a) for “evidence” there shall be substituted “oral evidence of a medical practitioner appointed for the purposes of Part II by the Commission and on the written or oral evidence of one other medical practitioner”;

(b) paragraphs (2) and (3) shall be omitted.