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Section 15 Place of confinement of prisoners.

Northern Ireland

(1)

A prisoner sentenced by any court or committed to a prison on remand or pending trial or otherwise may, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other enactment, be lawfully confined in any prison provided or maintained by the F1Department.

(2)

Prisoners shall be committed to such prison as the Department may from time to time direct; and may during the term of their imprisonment be removed, by direction of the Department, from the prison in which they are confined to any other prison.

Annotations

Textual amendments

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Word in s. 15 substituted (12.4.2010) by Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), arts. 1(2), 6(1), Sch. 4 para. 2(3) (with arts. 28-31); S.I. 2010/977, art. 1(2)

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

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1968 c. 29 (NI)