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Explanatory note

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This Order brings into operation Articles 19, 20, 26 (partially) and 30 of the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 on 1st June 2015. These provisions provide a power to allow the release of prisoners on licence before required to do so, together with an associated power of recall, and a power to allow the release of certain prisoners on compassionate grounds.