The Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989

Interpretation of Part IX

70.—(1) In this Part—

“confession” includes any statement wholly or partly adverse to the person who made it, whether made to a person in authority or not and whether made in words or otherwise;

“Service court” means a court-martial or a Standing Civilian Court; and

“sexual offence” has the meaning given in section 58(5) of the Children and Young Persons Act (Northern Ireland) 1968(1).

(2) In this Part references to conviction before a Service court are references—

(a) as regards a court-martial constituted under the Army Act 1955(2) or the Air Force Act 1955(3), to a finding of guilty which is, or falls to be treated as, a finding of the court duly confirmed;

(b) as regards—

(i) a court-martial; or

(ii) a disciplinary court,

constituted under the Naval Discipline Act 1957(4), to a finding of guilty which is, or falls to be treated as, the finding of the court.

(3) Nothing in this Part shall prejudice any power of a court to exclude evidence (whether by preventing questions from being put or otherwise) at its discretion.

(1)

1957 c. 53

(2)

1971 c. 36 (N.I.)

(3)

1968 c. 34 (N.I.)

(4)

1955 c. 18