{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-emergency-provisions-act-1991-repealed-2581996/section-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-emergency-provisions-act-1991-repealed-2581996/section-13.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/24",
  "legislation_title": "Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1991 (repealed 25.8.1996)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-emergency-provisions-act-1991-repealed-2581996",
  "path": "section/13",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Treatment of young persons convicted of scheduled offences.",
  "text": "(1) Section 73(2) of the Children and Young Persons Act (Northern Ireland) 1968 (under which a court may sentence a child or young person convicted on indictment of an offence punishable in the case of an adult with imprisonment for fourteen years or more to detention for a period specified in the sentence) shall have effect in relation to a young person convicted of a scheduled offence committed while this subsection is in force with the substitution of the word “ five ” for the word “fourteen”.\n(2) Subsection (3) of section 74 of that Act (under which the maximum length of the term or the aggregate of the terms for which a person may be committed in custody to a remand home under section 74(1)(e) is one month) shall have effect in relation to a young person found guilty of a scheduled offence committed while this subsection is in force with the substitution of the words “ six months ” for the words “one month”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1968 c. 34 (N.I.)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/24/section/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:38:30.906049+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."
}