Northern Ireland (Sentences) Act 1998
Sentence Review Commissioners
1 Sentence Review Commissioners.
2 Commissioners’ procedure.
Eligibility for release
3 Applications.
4 Fixed term prisoners.
5 Fixed term prisoners: special cases.
6 Life prisoners.
7 Life prisoners: specified dates.
8 Revocation of declaration.
9 Licences: conditions.
Release: further provisions
10 Accelerated release.
11 Notice of decisions.
12 Interpretation: prisoners and sentences.
13 Interpretation: terrorism.
14 Inadmissibility.
15 Information for victims.
16 Power to suspend and revive.
Miscellaneous
17 Sentences passed outside Northern Ireland.
18 Remission: amendment of 1995 Act.
General
19 Orders and rules.
20 Money.
21 Extent.
22 Commencement.
23 Short title.
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1 Commissioners
Chairman
1The Secretary of State shall appoint a chairman, or joint...
Tenure
2A Commissioner— (a) shall hold office in accordance with the...
3The Secretary of State may dismiss a Commissioner if satisfied—...
Remuneration and allowances
4(1) The Secretary of State shall pay such remuneration, fees...
Staff, premises, etc.
5The Secretary of State shall provide for the Commissioners the...
Annual report
6(1) The chairman (or joint chairmen) shall, as soon as...
Disqualification of Commissioners
7In Part III of Schedule 1 to the House of...
8In Part III of Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland...
9In section 4 of the Northern Ireland (Elections) Act 1998...
Disapplication of Acts
10The following provisions shall not apply in relation to the...
SCHEDULE 2 Commissioners’ Procedure
Rules
1The Secretary of State may make rules prescribing the procedure...
Allocation of cases
2The rules may provide— (a) for the allocation of proceedings...
Conduct of proceedings
3(1) The rules may require the Commissioners conducting the proceedings...
Applications
4The rules may require an application to be made in...
Evidence and information
5The rules may make provision about evidence and information, including...
Exclusion of persons from proceedings
6The rules may provide for proceedings to be held in...
7(1) The rules may permit Commissioners to hold proceedings in...
Successive applications
8The rules may prevent successive applications under any provision of...
Legal aid
9(1) The rules may allow Commissioners to award a prisoner...
SCHEDULE 3 Sentences passed outside Northern Ireland
Eligibility for release
1(1) This paragraph applies where a prisoner who makes an...
Equivalent offence
2(1) An offence is equivalent to a qualifying offence if...
Effect of declaration
3Where a declaration is granted under section 3 in accordance...
4(1) For section 4(1)(b) there shall be substituted—
5The references in sections 5 and 10 to section 26...
6The following shall be substituted for section 7— Life prisoners:...
7For section 15(1)(b) there shall be substituted—
8(1) The reference in section 12(4) to detention at the...
Restricted transfers
9(1) Nothing in Part II of Schedule 1 to the...

Northern Ireland (Sentences) Act 1998

1998 c. 35

An Act to make provision about the release on licence of certain persons serving sentences of imprisonment in Northern Ireland.

I1Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Annotations:
Commencement Information
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Acts amending provisions are coextensive with the enactments they affect see s. 21(2).