{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/treatment-of-offenders-act-northern-ireland-1968/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/treatment-of-offenders-act-northern-ireland-1968/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1968/29",
  "legislation_title": "Treatment of Offenders Act (Northern Ireland) 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/treatment-of-offenders-act-northern-ireland-1968",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Transfer to prison of persons over twenty-one and maximum age for detention in a young offenders centre.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, where a person ordered to be detained in a young offenders centre has attained the age of twenty-one years, the Minister may transfer him to prison.\n(2) No person shall be detained in a young offenders centre after he has attained the age of twenty-four, and accordingly any person so detained shall, not later than the day immediately preceding his twenty-fourth birthday, be transferred to prison; but this subsection shall not apply to any person who is detained in a young offenders centre—\nPara. (a) rep. by 1976 NI 4; 1980 NI 10\n(b) in pursuance of an order made by a court under … [ … Article 3 of the Treatment of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1976 1976 NI 4].\n(3) Where a person has been transferred to prison under this section, he shall be treated for the purposes of the Prison Act and this Act as if the order for detention made in relation to him were a sentence of imprisonment or an order of committal, and as if he had been detained in prison from the date on which his sentence began to run or, as the case may be, of his committal.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1989 NI 15"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1980 NI 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "1976 NI 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1968/29/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:30:05.219848+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."
}