{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-armed-forces-northern-ireland-consequential-amendments-order-1980/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1980/1088",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice and Armed Forces (Northern Ireland Consequential Amendments) Order 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-armed-forces-northern-ireland-consequential-amendments-order-1980",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Criminal Justice Act 1961",
  "text": "(1) In the Criminal Justice Act 1961—\n(a) in section 26—\n(i) subsection (3) is hereby repealed;\n(ii) in subsection (5)—\n(a) after the word “Kingdom” where it first occurs insert the words “other than Northern Ireland”;\n(b) in paragraph (a) of the proviso after the words “from England and Wales” insert the words “to Scotland”;\n(c) in paragraphs (a) and (b) of the proviso the words “or Northern Ireland” are hereby repealed;\n(iii) after subsection (5) insert the following subsection:—\n“(5A) Where a person sentenced to borstal training is transferred under this section to Northern Ireland, the provisions applicable to him shall be those applicable to a person ordered to be detained in a young offenders centre for a term of two years by a court in Northern Ireland on the date on which he was sentenced to borstal training.”;\n(b) in section 29(1) after the words “detention centre” and in section 30(3) after the words “borstal institution” insert the words “young offenders centre”;\n(c) in section 32(2) for paragraph (d) substitute the following paragraph:—\n“(d) section 23 of the Prison Act (Northern Ireland) 1953;”;\n(d) in section 38(5) after paragraph (b) insert the following paragraph:—\n“(bb) an order for detention in a young offenders centre made in Northern Ireland shall be treated as a sentence of imprisonment for the like term;”;\n(e) in section 39(1)—\n(i) in paragraph (a) of the definition of “appropriate institution” after the word “Kingdom” insert the words “other than Northern Ireland”;\n(ii) after paragraph (bb) of that definition insert the following paragraph:—\n“(bbb) in relation to a person sentenced when under twenty-one years of age to—\n(a) imprisonment for less than three years;\n(b) borstal training;\n(c) detention in Scotland;\nwho is so removed to Northern Ireland, a young offenders centre;”.\n(2) Schedule 3 to the Treatment of Offenders Act (Northern Ireland) 1968 in so far as it amends the Criminal Justice Act 1961 and the Criminal Justice Act 1967 is hereby repealed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Substituted by Criminal Justice Act 1967 (c. 80) Schedule 6, para. 24."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Inserted by Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1963 (c. 39) Schedule 5."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1982/48",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice Act 1982"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1982/48",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice Act 1982"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1980/1088/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:57:04.634591+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."
}