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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-act-1998-devolution-of-policing-and-justice-functions-order-2010/article-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2010/976",
  "legislation_title": "The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-act-1998-devolution-of-policing-and-justice-functions-order-2010",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Functions relating to the treatment of offenders",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 4 (which makes amendments relating to prisons) has effect.\n(2) Schedule 5 (which makes amendments relating to the release of prisoners on licence) has effect.\n(3) Schedule 6 (which makes amendments relating to miscarriages of justice and the Royal prerogative of mercy) has effect.\n(4) Schedule 7 (which amends the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994) has effect.\n(5) Schedule 8 (which amends the Repatriation of Prisoners Act 1984 and the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997) has effect.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 6 in force at 12.4.2010, see art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1994 c. 33."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1984 c. 47."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1997 c. 43."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/976/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:45:39.950485+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."
}