Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1996 (repealed) (c. 22)

Part I N.I. Scheduled Offences

Treatment of offenders N.I.

[F1 14 Treatment of children convicted of scheduled offences. N.I.

Article 45(2) of the Criminal Justice (Children) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (under which a court may sentence a child convicted on indictment of an offence punishable in the case of an adult with imprisonment for fourteen years or more todetentionfor a period specified in the sentence) shall have effect in relation to a child convicted of a scheduled offence committed while this section is in force with the substitution of the word “five” for “14”.]

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 14 substituted (31.1.1999) by S.I. 1998/1504 (N.I. 9), art. 65(1), Sch. 5 para. 47; S.R. 1999/25, art. 2