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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-service-orders-northern-ireland-consequential-amendments-order-1989/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-service-orders-northern-ireland-consequential-amendments-order-1989/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1345",
  "legislation_title": "The Community Service Orders (Northern Ireland Consequential Amendments) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-service-orders-northern-ireland-consequential-amendments-order-1989",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThe Treatment of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 reduced from 17 to 16 years the minimum age at which a person may be made subject to a community service order in Northern Ireland. This Order makes amendments to the law of England and Wales and Scotland which are consequential on this reduction and which enable a court in England and Wales or Scotland to make or amend a community service order in respect of a person of 16 years of age who resides or proposes to reside in Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1345/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:39:32.754142+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}