{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-northern-ireland-order-2008/article-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-northern-ireland-order-2008/article-23.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/23",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Power of court to recommend licence conditions for sentences of 12 months or more",
  "text": "(1) A court which sentences an offender to a determinate custodial sentence of 12 months or more in respect of any offence may, when passing sentence, recommend to the Department of Justice particular conditions which in its view should be included in any licence granted to the offender under Article 17 , 19 or 20A on release from prison.\n(2) In exercising the powers under Article 24 in respect of an offender, the Department of Justice shall have regard to any recommendation under paragraph (1).\n(3) A recommendation under paragraph (1) is not to be treated for any purpose as part of the sentence passed on the offender.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 23(1)(2) 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. 18 (with arts. 28-31); S.I. 2010/977, art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 23(1) substituted (30.4.2021) by Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Act 2021 (c. 11), s. 50(1)(i), Sch. 13 para. 74(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 23 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. 1(1)(2)(a), 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2008/1216/article/23",
    "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."
}