Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022
Public bill · Government · Presented
Updates a wide range of criminal law rules, with the biggest changes aimed at violence and stalking. It would make conspiracy to murder punishable by up to life in prison, create new offences for non-fatal strangulation and suffocation, and give clearer, stronger law on harassment and stalking, including court orders to keep an abuser away and bans on contact. It also makes a series of technical changes to firearms, evidence, bail, domestic violence and other laws, and adds extra protections for victims and witnesses.
Formal long title
Bill entitled An Act to amend the Offences against the Person Act 1861 and the Criminal Justice Act 2006 in relation to the offences of conspiracy to murder under those Acts; and for that purpose to provide for consequential amendments of other enactments; to amend the Explosives Act 1875 and the Firearms Act 1925; to provide for offences relating to non-fatal strangulation, non-fatal suffocation, harassment and stalking and for those purposes and other purposes to amend the Non-Fatal Offences against the Person Act 1997; to provide for the making of court orders to protect persons against certain conduct; to provide for circumstances in which a court may order the anonymity of a witness in criminal proceedings; to provide for certificates of evidence relating to the receipt, handling, transmission or storage of certain items, and for that purpose to provide for amendments to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1984 and the Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence and DNA Database System) Act 2014; and for those and other purposes to amend the Criminal Evidence Act 1992, the Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act 1994, the Bail Act 1997, the Criminal Law (Insanity) Act 2006, the Domestic Violence Act 2018 and certain other enactments; and to provide for related matters.
Last updated 11 September 2024
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- Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: From the Seanad Dáil
- Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages Seanad
- Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage Seanad
- Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage Seanad
- Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages Dáil
- Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage Select Committee on Justice
- Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage Dáil
- Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) Dáil
- Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Referral to Select Committee Dáil