{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parole-commissioners-rules-northern-ireland-2009/article-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parole-commissioners-rules-northern-ireland-2009/article-16.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2009/82",
  "legislation_title": "The Parole Commissioners’ Rules (Northern Ireland) 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parole-commissioners-rules-northern-ireland-2009",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Provisional direction of single Commissioner that the prisoner be released or single Commissioner directs that the case should be considered by a panel",
  "text": "(1) In any case where:\n(a) the single Commissioner has made a provisional direction under rule 13(2)(a) that the prisoner be released; or\n(b) case should be considered by a panel;\nthe prisoner’s case shall be considered by a panel appointed under rule 12(2).\n(2) Where a panel is required to consider a prisoner’s case under paragraph (1) the panel shall hold an oral hearing unless both parties and the panel agree otherwise.\n(3) The panel shall either:\n(a) direct that the prisoner not be released; or\n(b) direct that the prisoner be released.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 16 in operation at 1.4.2009, see rule 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2009/82/article/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:32:52.470235+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."
}