Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 Explanatory Notes

Section 74: Information about release or transfer

This section allows the Department to make regulations (subject to the negative resolution procedure), requiring those who are responsible for the individual while he is serving a custodial sentence or detained in a hospital, to notify other specified persons of the fact that they have become responsible for that individual, and of the time they are released from custody, or transferred to another institution.  The regulations would specify the person responsible and the person who must be notified.

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