{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-act-northern-ireland-2015/section-74",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-act-northern-ireland-2015/section-74.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2015/9",
  "legislation_title": "Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-act-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "section/74",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "74",
  "heading": "Information about release or transfer",
  "text": "(1) This section applies to an offender subject to notification requirements who is—\n(a) serving a custodial sentence; or\n(b) detained in a hospital.\n(2) The Department may by regulations make provision requiring the person who is responsible for such an offender to give notice to specified persons—\n(a) of the fact that that person has become responsible for the offender; and\n(b) of any occasion when—\n(i) the offender is released, or\n(ii) a different person is to become responsible for the offender.\n(3) In subsection (2) “specified persons” means persons specified, or of a description specified, in the regulations.\n(4) The regulations may make provision for determining who is to be taken for the purposes of this section as being responsible for an offender.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 74 in operation at 1.12.2016 by S.R. 2016/417, art. 2(s)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2015/9/section/74",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:20:10.058862+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."
}