The Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland Consequential Amendments) Order 2008

Commencement

2.—(1) Article 1, this Article and Article 9 come into force one week after the day on which this Order is made.

(2) Article 15 comes into force—

(a) so far as relating to the repeal of paragraph 18(2) of Schedule 6 to the Sexual Offences Act 2003(1), on the day appointed for the coming into operation of paragraph 12(2) of Schedule 1 to the principal Order;

(b) so far as relating to the repeal of paragraph 39 of Schedule 6 to that Act, on the day appointed for the coming into operation of paragraph 26(b) of Schedule 1 to the principal Order;

(c) so far as relating to the repeal of paragraph 46(5)(a) of Schedule 6 to that Act, on the day appointed for the coming into operation of paragraph 29(3) of Schedule 1 to the principal Order;

(3) The remaining provisions of this Order come into force on the day appointed for the coming into operation of Article 78 of the principal Order.

(4) In this Article “the principal Order” means the Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008(2).

(1)

2003 c. 42.

(2)

S.I. 2008/1769 (N.I. 2).