Statutory Instruments
2004 No. 3009
PRISONS
The Northern Ireland (Sentences) Act 1998 (Specified Organisations) Order 2004
Approved by both Houses of Parliament
Made
14th November 2004
Laid before Parliament
17th November 2004
Coming into force
15th November 2004
Whereas the Secretary of State considers it necessary by reason of urgency for this Order to be made without a draft having been approved by resolution of each House of Parliament:
And whereas the Secretary of State believes that the organisations specified in the Schedule to this Order are concerned in terrorism connected with the affairs of Northern Ireland, or in promoting or encouraging it, and that they have not established or are not maintaining a complete and unequivocal ceasefire:
Now, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 3(8) of the Northern Ireland (Sentences) Act 1998( 1 ), hereby makes the following Order:
1. —(1) This Order may be cited as the Northern Ireland (Sentences) Act 1998 (Specified Organisations) Order 2004 and shall come into force on 15th November 2004.
(2)The Northern Ireland (Sentences) Act 1998 (Specified Organisations) Order 2001( 2 ) is hereby revoked.
2. The organisations specified in the Schedule to this Order are specified organisations for the purposes of the Northern Ireland (Sentences) Act 1998.
Paul Murphy
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State
Northern Ireland Office
14th November 2004
Article 2
SCHEDULE 1 Specified Organisations
The Continuity Irish Republican Army
The Loyalist Volunteer Force
The organisation using the name “The Orange Volunteers” and in the name of which a statement described as a press release was published on 14 October 1998
The “Real” Irish Republican Army
The Red Hand Defenders
S.I. 2001/3411