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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 9 August 2011 - onwards
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2. Interpretation.

In this Act -

"Act of 1984" means the Criminal Justice Act 1984;

"arrestable offence" has the meaning it has in section 2 (as amended by section 8 of the Criminal Justice Act 2006) of the Criminal Law Act 1997;

"document" includes information recorded in any form and any thing on or in which information is recorded and from which information can be extracted;

"enactment" means a statute or an instrument made under a power conferred by statute;

"Minister" means the Minister for Justice and Equality;

"relevant offence" shall be construed in accordance with section 3.