{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-children-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-46B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-children-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-46B.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/46B",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "46B",
  "heading": "Recall of licensees",
  "text": "(1) In this Article —\n“P” means a person who has been released on licence under Article 46;\n“the Commissioners” and “the Department” have the meanings given in Article 46(1).\n(2) The Department may revoke P’s licence and recall P to detention—\n(a) if recommended to do so by the Commissioners, or\n(b) without such a recommendation, if it appears to the Department that it is expedient in the public interest to recall P before such a recommendation is practicable.\n(3) P—\n(a) shall, on P’s return to detention, be informed of the reasons for the recall and of the right conferred by sub-paragraph (b); and\n(b) may make representations in writing to the Department with respect to the recall.\n(4) The Department shall refer P’s case to the Commissioners.\n(5) Where on a reference under paragraph (4) the Commissioners direct P’s immediate release on licence under Article 46, the Department shall give effect to the direction.\n(6) The Commissioners shall not give a direction under paragraph (5) unless they are satisfied that it is no longer necessary for the protection of the public from serious harm that P should be detained.\n(7) On the revocation of P’s licence, P shall be liable to be detained in pursuance of P’s sentence and, if at large, shall be treated as being unlawfully at large.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Arts. 46-46B substituted for art. 46 (26.4.2013) by Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2013 (c. 7), ss. 10(3), 15(1) (with s.10(5)-(9))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1998/1504/article/46B",
    "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."
}