7 Life prisoners: specified dates.N.I.
(1)The Secretary of State must inform the Commissioners of the length of time served by persons—
(a)sentenced in Northern Ireland to imprisonment for life, and
(b)released on licence after 1982 and before 1999.
(2)In specifying a day under section 6(1) Commissioners must have regard to—
(a)information given under subsection (1) above, and
(b)previous decisions of Commissioners.
(3)Before Commissioners specify a day under section 6(1) the Secretary of State may notify them of cases which he believes are particularly relevant in the prisoner’s case; and the Commissioners may take the notification into account.