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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-northern-ireland-act-2002/section-64",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/26",
  "legislation_title": "Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-northern-ireland-act-2002",
  "path": "section/64",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "64",
  "heading": "Juvenile justice centre orders for 17 year olds",
  "text": "In Article 39 of the Criminal Justice (Children) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (juvenile justice centre orders for offences punishable in the case of an adult with imprisonment), after paragraph (3) insert—\n“(3A) A court shall only make a juvenile justice centre order in the case of a child who has attained the age of 17 if—\n(a) he will not become an adult during the period of the order;\n(b) he has not had a custodial sentence imposed on him within the last two years; and\n(c) the court, after considering a report made by a probation officer, considers that it is in his best interests to make such an order.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/26/section/64",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:19:23.998184+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."
}