Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008

Life Sentences (Northern Ireland) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/2564) (N.I. 2)U.K.

51U.K.In Article 10 of the Life Sentences (Northern Ireland) Order 2001 (life prisoners transferred to Northern Ireland), after paragraph (5) insert—

(6)The reference in paragraph (4)(b) to a person transferred to Northern Ireland in pursuance of a warrant under the Repatriation of Prisoners Act 1984 includes a person who is detained in Northern Ireland in pursuance of a warrant under section 4A of that Act (warrant transferring responsibility for detention and release of offender).

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