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Explanatory note

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This Order amends section 26(2) the Treatment of Offenders Act (Northern Ireland) 1968. The amendment is consequential on the introduction of sentences of detention under Article 14(5) of the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2008. The effect of the amendment is that offenders sentenced to terms of detention under that provision will have their sentence reduced by any relevant period of pre-sentence custody in the same way as those sentenced to terms of imprisonment or detention in a young offenders centre.