{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-life-sentences-northern-ireland-order-2001/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-life-sentences-northern-ireland-order-2001/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2001/0110296141",
  "legislation_title": "Life Sentences (Northern Ireland) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-life-sentences-northern-ireland-order-2001",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Duration and conditions of licences",
  "text": "(1) Where a life prisoner is released on licence, the licence shall, unless previously revoked under Article 9(1) or (2), remain in force until his death.\n(2) A life prisoner subject to a licence shall comply with such conditions (which may include on his release conditions as to his supervision by a probation officer) as may for the time being be specified in the licence; and the Secretary of State may make rules for regulating the supervision of any descriptions of such persons.\n(3) The Secretary of State shall not include on release, or subsequently insert, a condition in the licence of a life prisoner, or vary or cancel any such condition, except in accordance with recommendations of the Commissioners.\n(4) Rules made under paragraph (2) shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament in like manner as a statutory instrument and section 5 of the Statutory Instruments Act 1946 shall apply accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1946 c. 36."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2001/0110296141/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:26:45.575049+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."
}