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Order made by the Department of Justice and laid before the Assembly under section 96(2) of the Coronavirus Act 2020 for approval of the Assembly before the expiration of 40 days from the date of it coming into operation.
Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
Justice
Livelinks And Inquests
Made
27th January 2022
Coming into operation in accordance with Article 1
1. This Order may be cited as the Coronavirus Act 2020 (Extension of Provisions Related to Courts, Tribunals and Inquests) Order (Northern Ireland) 2022 and shall come into operation at the time it is made.
2. Section 32 of the Coronavirus Act 2020 does not expire at the time when it would otherwise expire and expires instead on 24th September 2022.
3. Parts 1 and 2 of Schedule 27 to the Coronavirus Act 2020, and section 57 of that Act so far as it relates to those Parts, do not expire at the time when they would otherwise expire and expire instead on 24th September 2022.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Justice on 27th January 2022
Naomi Long
Minister of Justice
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order extends the provisions in the Coronavirus Act 2020 (c. 7)(the “ 2020 Act”) which allow a coroner to hold an inquest into a death in prison caused by natural illness without a jury and which provide for courts and statutory tribunals in Northern Ireland to receive evidence, wholly or in part, through the use of audio or video live links.
Article 2 extends the operation of section 32 of the Act for nearly six months after the period of time provided for by section 89 (1) of the 2020 Act, so that a coroner can hold (or continue to hold) an inquest into a death in prison caused by natural illness without a jury until 24 September 2022.
Article 3 extends the period of time provided by section 89 (1) of the 2020 Act for nearly 6 months so that the wider and extended use of video or audio live links by all or any courts or a statutory tribunal (Part 1 of Schedule 27) and the provisions which facilitate public participation in legal proceedings where live links are being used while protecting those proceedings from unauthorised recordings or transmission (Part 2 of Schedule 27) can continue until the 24 September 2022.
2010 c. 3 (N.I.), s. 1(1).
