The Attorney General’s Human Rights Guidance (Probation Board for Northern Ireland) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2015 No. 51

Human Rights

The Attorney General’s Human Rights Guidance (Probation Board for Northern Ireland) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015

Made

12th February 2015

Coming into operation

23rd March 2015

The Attorney General:

(a)has, in pursuance of section 8(1) of the Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2004, issued guidance on international human rights standards in respect of the Probation Board for Northern Ireland;

(b)has, in accordance with section 8(3)(a) of the Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2004, published that guidance on his website;

(c)has, in accordance with section 8(3)(b) of that Act, laid that guidance before the Assembly(1);

(d)has, in accordance with section 8(1A) and section 8(5A) of that Act, consulted the Advocate General for Northern Ireland(2).

The Attorney General, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 8(3)(c) of that Act, makes the following order:

(1)

‘the Northern Ireland Assembly’ substituted for ‘each house of Parliament’ by paragraph 81(2) of Schedule 14 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976).

(2)

Inserted by section 8(9) of the Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2004 and paragraph 7A of Schedule 7 of the Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002.