Section 15 Restricted remission for persons sentenced for scheduled offences.
Northern Ireland
The remission granted under prison rules in respect of a sentence of imprisonment passed in Northern Ireland for a scheduled offence shall not, where it is for a term of five years or more, exceed one-third of that term.
Where a person is sentenced on the same occasion for two or more such offences to terms which are consecutive subsection (1) shall apply as if those terms were a single term.
Where a person is serving two or more terms which are consecutive but not all subject to subsection (1), the maximum remission granted under prison rules in respect of those terms taken together shall be arrived at by calculating the maximum remission for each term separately and aggregating the result.
In this section “prison rules” means rules made under section 13 of the M1Prison Act (Northern Ireland) 1953.
The Secretary of State may by order substitute a different length of sentence and a different maximum period of remission for those mentioned in subsection (1).
This section applies where—
the scheduled offence is committed while this section is in force;
the offence (being a scheduled offence within the meaning of the M2Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1991) was committed while section 14 of that Act was in force; or
Annotations
Marginal citations
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Notes on the whole Act
Textual amendments
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Act repealed (19.2.2001) by 2000 c. 11, s. 125(2), Sch. 16 Pt. I; S.I. 2001/421, arts. 2, 3
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Act ceased to have effect (subject to temporary extension of specified provisions as mentioned below) (20.7.2000) (temporary extension: by ss. 2(2), 128, Sch. 1 paras. 1, 2(1) of 2000 c. 11 there is continued in force for a period of 12 months beginning with 20.7.2000 any provision of the Act (except ss. 26(1)(b), 35 and 50) if and so far as it is in force immediately before 20.7.2000 by virtue of an order under s. 62(3) of this Act)
Act wholly repealed (19.2.2001) by virtue of 2000 c. 11, ss. 2(1)(b), 125(2), 128, Sch. 16 Pt. I; S.I. 2001/421, art. 2