The Criminal Justice (Children) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998

Effect of subsequent conviction where juvenile justice centre order is in effectN.I.

44.—(1) Where a person in respect of whom a juvenile justice centre order is in effect is convicted by or before a court of an offence[F1 and the court imposes a custodial sentence on the child for the offence], the court shall—

(a)revoke the order; and

(b)in passing sentence for the offence take into account the period for which, but for the revocation, the order would have continued in effect.

(2) Where in such a case the court decides to make a juvenile justice centre order, Article 39 shall have effect as if—

(a)in paragraph (2) for the words from “a period of six months” to “two years” there were substituted the words “such period not exceeding two years as the court specifies in the order”;

(b)in paragraph (5) for the words “one half of the period of the order” there were substituted “such part of the period of the order as the court specifies in the order”.