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2004 No. 476

POLICE

The Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 (Designated Places of Detention) (No. 2) Order 2004

  Made 15th November 2004 
  Laid before Parliament 16th November 2004 
  Coming into operation 7th December 2004 

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 73(10) of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000[1] hereby makes the following Order:

     1. This Order may be cited as the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 (Designated Places of Detention) (No. 2) Order 2004 and shall come into operation on 7th December 2004.

     2. There is hereby specified as a designated place of detention for the purposes of section 73 of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 (places of detention: lay visitors) that part of Grosvenor Road Police Station that is for the time being designated under paragraph 1 of Schedule 8 to the Terrorism Act 2000[2] (place of detention), being so much of Grosvenor Road Police Station as is needed to detain persons under section 41 of, or Schedule 7 to, the Terrorism Act 2000.

     3. The Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 (Designated Places of Detention) Order 2004[3] is hereby revoked.


Ian Pearson
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Northern Ireland Office
15th November 2004


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order.)


Under section 73 of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 ("the 2000 Act") lay visitors may only visit a place of detention designated by the Secretary of State under paragraph 1 of Schedule 8 to the Terrorism Act 2000 if it has been designated by Order as a place they may visit.

This Order designates that part of Grosvenor Road Police Station that is for the time being designated by the Secretary of State to hold terrorist suspects, under paragraph 1 of Schedule 8 to the Terrorism Act 2000, as a place of detention that may be visited by lay visitors.

This Order revokes the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 (Designated Places of Detention) Order 2004 (S.R. 2004 No. 221).

Notes:

 [1] 2000 c. 32back

[2] 2000 c. 11back

[3] S.R. 2004/221back


ISBN 0 33795743 6


  © Crown copyright 2004

Prepared 3 December 2004

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