# Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1991 (repealed 25.8.1996), Section 13: Treatment of young persons convicted of scheduled offences.

Extent: N.I.

(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”.
(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”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/24/section/13 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-emergency-provisions-act-1991-repealed-2581996/section-13
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