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(1) This Order may be cited as the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (Commencement No. 1) (Northern Ireland) Order 2011.
(2) In this Order, “the 2009 Act” means the Coroners and Justice Act 2009.
2 
The day appointed for the coming into force of the following provisions of the 2009 Act is 18th April 2011—
(a) the following provisions of Part 3 Chapter 1 (anonymity in investigations)
(i) section 74;
(ii) section 75(1), (2)(d), and (3) to (5);
(iii) section 76(1) to (11), 12(b) and (13);
(iv) section 77(1)(d) and (g), and (2) to (9);
(v) section 78;
(vi) section 79(1) to (5) and (6)(b);
(vii) section 80(1), (2)(a), (d) and (e), and (3) to (8);
(viii) section 81(4) and (7);
(ix) sections 82 and 85;
(x) section 83(3) to (5);
(b) section 144 (treatment of convictions in other member States etc), so far as it relates to the provisions specified in sub-paragraph (d);
(c) in section 177 (consequential etc amendments and transitional and saving provisions), subsection (2) so far as it relates to the provisions specified in sub-paragraph (e);
(d) in Schedule 17 (treatment of convictions in other member States etc)—
(i) paragraph 2 (evidence of bad character); and
(ii) paragraphs 16 to 18 (proving of foreign convictions before courts in Northern Ireland);
(e) in Schedule 22 paragraph 40 (transitional provisions in relation to treatment of convictions in other member States etc), so far as it relates to paragraphs 2, and 16 to 18 of Schedule 17.
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The day appointed for the coming into force of the following provisions of the 2009 Act is 1st June 2011—
(a) section 53 (persons suffering from diminished responsibility (Northern Ireland));
(b) sections 54 and 55 (partial defence to murder; loss of control);
(c) section 56(1) (abolition of common law defence of provocation);
(d) section 56(2)(b) (repeal relating to abolition of common law defence of provocation);
(e) section 58 (infanticide (Northern Ireland));
(f) section 178, so far as it relates to the provisions specified in sub-paragraph (g);
(g) in Part 2 of Schedule 23 (criminal offences), the repeal relating to the Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1966.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Justice on 5 April 2011
(L.S.)David Ford
Minister of Justice
