{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parole-commissioners-rules-northern-ireland-2009/article-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parole-commissioners-rules-northern-ireland-2009/article-25.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/25",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Recalled life, indeterminate and extended custodial and terrorist prisoners",
  "text": "Where the Secretary of State refers a life prisoner’s case to the Commissioners under Article 9(4) of the 2001 Order or the case of a prisoner who was released on licence under Article 18 or 20A of the 2008 Order to the Commissioners under Article 28(4) of the 2008 Order, these rules shall apply subject to the following modifications:\n(a) rules 6, 7(4), (7), (9) and (10), 8(1), 9(3), 10, 12(1), 13(1), (3) and (6), 14(3), (4), (5) and (7), 15(3) and (4), 18(3), (4), (5), (7)(b) and (10), 20(2), 21 and 24(2) shall apply as if for references to the periods of time specified there were substituted a reference to such period of time as the Commissioners, the single Commissioner or the chairman of the panel shall determine, taking account of both the desirability of reaching an early decision in the prisoner’s case and the need to ensure fairness to the prisoner; and\n(b) rule 8(1) shall apply as if for the reference to the information and reports specified in Schedule 1 there were substituted a reference to the information and reports specified in Schedule 2.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 25 substituted (30.4.2021) by Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Act 2021 (c. 11), s. 50(1)(i), Sch. 13 para. 76(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 25 heading inserted (30.4.2021) by Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Act 2021 (c. 11), s. 50(1)(i), Sch. 13 para. 76(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 25 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/25",
    "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."
}