1. Home
  2. Acts
  3. 1990
  4. Click on title below to return to Act

Updated to 11 December 2024 (Act No. 48 of 2024 and S.I. No. 697 of 2024)

Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence) Act 1990
No. 34 of 1990

Contents

Commencement

SectionCommencement DateCommencement Information
Whole Act 5 June 1992 Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence) Act 1990 (Commencement) Order 1992 (S.I. No. 129 of 1992) art. 2

Amendments and other effects

How AffectedAffecting Provision
Repealed with transitional provisions 11/2014, ss. 1(2), 6(1), 7
S. 1 references “registered medical practitioner” construed 25/2007, ss. 1(3), 108(1)
S. 2(1) amended 29/2007, ss. 1(2), 53(a)(i)
  26/2006, ss. 1(2), 14(a)(i)(I)
  29/1996, ss. 3(a)(i), 12(2)
S. 2(1)(b) substituted 26/2006, ss. 1(2), 14(a)(i)(II)
S. 2(1)(c) substituted 26/2006, ss. 1(2), 14(a)(i)(III)
S. 2(1)(e) amended 26/2006, ss. 1(2), 14(a)(i)(IV)
S. 2(1A) inserted 26/2006, ss. 1(2), 14(a)(ii)
S. 2(2) amended 26/2006, ss. 1(2), 14(a)(iii)
S. 2(3)(b) amended 29/2007, ss. 1(2), 53(a)(ii)
  29/1996, ss. 3(a)(ii), 12(2)
S. 2(4)(a) amended S. I. No. 130 of 1992, reg. 4
S. 2(4)(a), 2(10)(a) amended S. I. No. 130 of 1992, reg. 4, app. A
S. 2(4)(b) amended 26/2006, ss. 1(2), 14(a)(iv)
  S. I. No. 130 of 1992, reg. 6
S. 2(4)(b), 2(10)(b) amended S. I. No. 130 of 1992, reg. 6, app. B
S. 2(5)(a)(ii) amended 29/2007, ss. 1(2), 53(a)(iii)
  26/2006, ss. 1(2), 14(a)(v)
S. 2 (6) amended S. I. No. 130 of 1992, reg. 5
S. 2 (6) applied S. I. No. 130 of 1992, reg. 5
S. 2(8) references “registered medical practitioner” construed 25/2007, ss. 1(3), 108(1)
S. 2(8A) inserted 26/2006, ss. 1(2), 14(a)(vi)
S. 2(9) amended 26/2006, ss. 1(2), 14(a)(vii)
S. 3(1) amended 22/2011, ss. 1(2) & 12(a)
S. 3(1)(a)(i) substituted 10/1999, ss. 2 (2), 17 (1)
S. 3(2) amended 10/1999, ss. 2(2), 17(2)
S. 3(3) substituted 22/2011, ss. 1(2), 12(b)
S. 3(3A) inserted 22/2011, ss. 1(2), 12(c)
S. 4(2) amended 29/2007, ss. 1(2), 53(b)
  26/2006, ss. 1(2), 14(b)(i)
  29/1996, ss. 3(b), 12(2)
S. 4(3) substituted 26/2006, ss. 1(2), 14(b)(ii)
S. 4(3A) inserted 26/2006, ss. 1(2), 14(b)(ii)
S. 4(5) form prescribed S.I. No. 93 of 1997, ord. 31, rls. 6, 7, forms 31.5, 31.6, schedule B
S. 5 form prescribed S.I. No. 130 of 1992, regs. 1(2), 9
S. 5(2)(a) amended 26/2006, ss. 1(2), 14(c)
S. 5(2)(aa) inserted 26/2006, ss. 1(2), 14(c)

SIs made under the Act

SectionSIs made under the Act
S. 5 Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence) Act 1990 (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. No. 154 of 2008)
  Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence) Act 1990 Regulations 1992 (S.I. No. 130 of 1992)