{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/treatment-of-offenders-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/treatment-of-offenders-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1976/226",
  "legislation_title": "Treatment of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/treatment-of-offenders-northern-ireland-order-1976",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Appeals",
  "text": "Where under Article 3(1) [ a magistrates'] court orders that a person be returned to prison or to a young offenders centre, that person shall have the like right of appeal against that order as if—\n(a) the court had immediately before making it convicted him; and\n(b) the order were a sentence passed upon that conviction.\n[ and where under Article 3(1) or (5) the Crown Court orders that a person be returned to prison or to a young offenders centre, that person may appeal against that order in accordance with section 9 of the Criminal Appeal (Northern Ireland) Act 1980 1980 c.47.]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1980 c. 47"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1980 c. 47"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1976/226/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:53:58.010559+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."
}