Criminal Justice Act
Criminal Justice Act is a stock short title used for legislation in Canada, Malaysia, the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom relating to the criminal law. It tends to be used for Acts that do not have a single cohesive subject matter.
The Bill for an Act with this short title will have been known as a Criminal Justice Bill during its passage through Parliament.
Criminal Justice Acts may be a generic name either for legislation bearing that short title or for all legislation which relates to the criminal law. It is not a term of art.
See also Criminal Law Act and Criminal Law Amendment Act.
List
Canada
- The Youth Criminal Justice Act
Malaysia
- The Criminal Justice Act 1953
Republic of Ireland
- The Criminal Justice Act 1924
- The Criminal Justice Act 1924
- The Criminal Justice Act 1951
- The Criminal Justice Act 1960
- The Criminal Justice Act 1962
- The Criminal Justice Act 1964
- The Criminal Justice Act 1976
- The Criminal Justice Act 1983
- The Criminal Justice Act 1984
- The Criminal Justice Act 1990
- The Criminal Justice Act 1990
- The Criminal Justice Act 1993
- The Criminal Justice Act 1994
- The Criminal Justice Act 1994
- The Criminal Justice Act 1996
- The Criminal Justice Act 1997
- The Criminal Justice Act 1998
- The Criminal Justice Act 1999
- The Criminal Justice Act 1999
- The Criminal Justice Act 2000
- The Criminal Justice Act 2000
- The Criminal Justice Act 2001
- The Criminal Justice Act 2003
- The Criminal Justice Act 2003
- The Criminal Justice Act 2003
- The Criminal Justice Act 2004
- The Criminal Justice Act 2005
- The Criminal Justice Act 2006
- The Criminal Justice Act 2007
- The Criminal Justice Act 2008
- The Criminal Justice Act 2009
- The Criminal Justice Act 2009
- The Criminal Justice Act 2009
- The Criminal Justice Act 2010
- The Criminal Justice Act 2010
- The Criminal Justice Act 2011
- The Criminal Justice Act 2011
- The Criminal Justice Act 2011
- The Criminal Justice Act 2012
United Kingdom
- The Criminal Justice Administration Act 1851
- The Criminal Justice Act 1855
- The Criminal Justice Act 1856
- The Criminal Justice Administration Act 1914
- The Criminal Justice Act 1925
- The Criminal Justice Act 1948
- The Criminal Justice Act 1961
- The Criminal Justice Administration Act 1962
- The Criminal Justice Act 1967
- The Criminal Justice Act 1972
- The Criminal Justice Act 1981
- The Criminal Justice Act 1982
- The Criminal Justice Act 1987
- The Criminal Justice Act 1988
- The Criminal Justice Act 1990
- The Criminal Justice Act 1991
- The Criminal Justice Act 1993
- The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994
- The Criminal Justice Act 1998
- The Criminal Justice Act 1998
- The Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000
- The Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001
- The Criminal Justice Act 2003
- The Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008
Scotland
- The Criminal Justice Act 1949
- The Criminal Justice Act 1963
- The Criminal Justice Act 1980
- The Criminal Justice Act 1987
- The Criminal Justice Act 1995
- The Criminal Justice Act 2003
- The Police, Public Order and Criminal Justice Act 2006
- The Criminal Justice and Licensing Act 2010
Northern Ireland
- The Criminal Justice Act 1933
- The Summary Jurisdiction and Criminal Justice Act 1935
- The Criminal Justice Act 1945
- The Criminal Justice Act 1953
- The Summary Jurisdiction and Criminal Justice Act 1958
- The Criminal Justice Act 1966
- The Criminal Justice Act 1968
A number of Orders in Council with this title have been passed. The change in nomenclature is due to the demise of the Parliament of Northern Ireland and the imposition of direct rule. These orders are considered to be primary legislation.
- The Criminal Justice Order 1980
- The Criminal Justice Order 1986
- The Criminal Justice Order 1988
- The Criminal Justice Order 1988
- The Criminal Justice Order 1990
- The Criminal Justice Order 1991
- The Criminal Justice Order 1993
- The Criminal Justice Order 1994
- The Criminal Justice Order 1996
- The Criminal Justice Order 1998
- The Criminal Justice Order 1998
- The Criminal Justice Order 2003
- The Criminal Justice Order 2003
- The Criminal Justice Order 2004
- The Criminal Justice Order 2004
- The Criminal Justice Order 2004
- The Criminal Justice Order 2005
- The Criminal Justice Order 2008
United States
- The "Criminal Justice Act" which was codified as