Eligibility for release

Life prisoners: specified dates.
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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.