{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-children-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-3B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-children-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-3B.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1998/1504",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice (Children) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-children-northern-ireland-order-1998",
  "path": "article/3B",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3B",
  "heading": "Youth conference rules",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may make rules about the procedure of youth conferences.\n(2) The rules may, in particular, make provision—\n(a) conferring or imposing functions on youth conference co-ordinators (which may include power to exclude from a meeting constituting, or forming part of, a youth conference persons otherwise entitled to participate in it by virtue of Article 3A(6)); and\n(b) about the period within which youth conferences must be completed and functions of youth conference co-ordinators must be performed.\n(3) Rules under this Article are subject to negative resolution.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "2002 c. 26"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 3B(3) substituted (12.4.2010) by Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), arts. 1(2), 4(3), Sch. 2 para. 19(2) (with arts. 28-31); S.I. 2010/977, art. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1998/1504/article/3B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:41:01.478052+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."
}