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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-life-sentences-northern-ireland-consequential-amendments-order-2001/article-3",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2001/0110296133",
  "legislation_title": "Life Sentences (Northern Ireland Consequential Amendments) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-life-sentences-northern-ireland-consequential-amendments-order-2001",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997",
  "text": "(1) The Crime (Sentences) Act 1997 shall have effect subject to the following provisions of this Article.\n(2) In Schedule 1 in paragraph 12 (restricted transfers from Northern Ireland to England and Wales) for sub-paragraph (2)(a) there shall be substituted—\n“(a) sections 13(7) and 24 of the Prison Act (Northern Ireland) 1953, Articles 3 to 6 of the Treatment of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1976, Articles 26 to 28 of the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 and Articles 6 to 9 of the Life Sentences (Northern Ireland) Order 2001 or, as the case may require, section 1 of the Northern Ireland (Remission of Sentences) Act 1995 shall apply to him in place of the corresponding provisions of the law of England and Wales;”.\n(3) In Schedule 1 in paragraph 13 (restricted transfers from Northern Ireland to Scotland)—\n(a) for sub-paragraph (2)(a) there shall be substituted—\n“(a) sections 13(7) and 24 of the Prison Act (Northern Ireland) 1953, Articles 3 to 6 of the Treatment of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1976, Articles 26 to 28 of the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 and Articles 6 to 9 of the Life Sentences (Northern Ireland) Order 2001 or, as the case may require, section 1 of the Northern Ireland (Remission of Sentences) Act 1995 shall apply to him in place of the corresponding provisions of the law of Scotland;”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (5) after the word “1996” there shall be inserted the words “, the Life Sentences (Northern Ireland) Order 2001”.\n(4) In Schedule 2 paragraph 10 is hereby repealed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2001/0110296133/article/3",
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  },
  "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."
}