{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-northern-ireland-order-2008/article-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-northern-ireland-order-2008/article-17.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/2008/1216",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-northern-ireland-order-2008",
  "path": "article/17",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Duty to release certain fixed-term prisoners",
  "text": "(1) As soon as a fixed-term prisoner, other than one to whom Article 18 or 20A applies, has served the requisite custodial period, the Department of Justice shall release the prisoner on licence under this Article.\n(2) In this Article “the requisite custodial period” means—\n(a) subject to sub-paragraph (b), the custodial period specified by the court under Article 8;\n(b) in relation to a person serving two or more concurrent or consecutive sentences, the period determined under Article 32(2) or 33(2)",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 17(1) substituted (30.4.2021) by Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Act 2021 (c. 11), s. 50(1)(i), Sch. 13 para. 74(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 17(1) substituted (12.4.2010) by Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), arts. 1(2), 6(2), Sch. 5 para. 13 (with arts. 28-31); S.I. 2010/977, art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Art. 17 applied (13.5.2016) by Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 21), ss. 55(6)(a), 61(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Art. 17(1) modified (13.5.2016) by Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 21), ss. 56(5)(b), 61(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 17 wholly in operation at 1.4.2009, see art. 1(4) and S.R. 2009/120, art. 2, Sch. 1 (subject to Sch. 2 paras. 2(2)(5), 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2008/1216/article/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:39:03.144833+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."
}