{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/treatment-of-offenders-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/treatment-of-offenders-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-6.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/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Evidence",
  "text": "For the purposes of Article 3, a certificate purporting to be signed by the governor or deputy governor of a prison or young offenders centre which specifies—\n(a) the date on which a person was discharged from prison or a young offenders centre;\n(b) the sentence or term which the person was serving at the time of his discharge, the offence in respect of which the sentence or term was imposed and the date on which he was convicted of that offence;\n(c) the date on which the person would, but for his discharge in pursuance of prison rules, have been discharged from prison or a young offenders centre,\nshall be evidence of the matters so specified.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "extended",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1997/43",
      "affecting_title": "Crime (Sentences) Act 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "extended",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1997/43",
      "affecting_title": "Crime (Sentences) Act 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1976/226/article/6",
    "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."
}