{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-sentences-act-1997/schedule-1/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-sentences-act-1997/schedule-1/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1997/43",
  "legislation_title": "Crime (Sentences) Act 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-sentences-act-1997",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may, on the application of a person undergoing or about to undergo supervision in any part of the United Kingdom, make an order for the transfer of his supervision to another part of the United Kingdom or to any of the Channel Islands, that is to say, an order—\n(a) for his supervision or, as the case may be, the remainder of his supervision to be undergone in that country or island; and\n(b) for responsibility for his supervision to be transferred to an appropriate person there.\n(2) The Secretary of State may, on the application of a person undergoing or about to undergo supervision in any of the Channel Islands, make an order for the transfer of his supervision to any part of the United Kingdom, that is to say, an order—\n(a) for his supervision or, as the case may be, the remainder of his supervision to be undergone in that country; and\n(b) for responsibility for his supervision to be transferred to an appropriate person there.\n(3) In relation to the transfer to another part of the United Kingdom of the supervision of a person undergoing or about to undergo supervision in Northern Ireland, any reference in sub-paragraph (1) to the Secretary of State must be read as a reference to the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 4(3) inserted (12.4.2010) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), art. 1(2), Sch. 8 para. 19 (with arts. 28-31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 paras. 1-7 extended (with modifications) (1.10.1997) by S.I. 1997/1775, art. 2,Sch.; S.I. 1997/2200, art.2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 4(1) amended (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/1820, arts. 1(2), 4, Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 130(5); S.I. 1998/3178, art. 3"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/43/schedule/1/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:24:59.837778+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."
}