{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/treatment-of-offenders-northern-ireland-order-1989/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/treatment-of-offenders-northern-ireland-order-1989/article-12.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1989/1344",
  "legislation_title": "The Treatment of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/treatment-of-offenders-northern-ireland-order-1989",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Increase in maximum term of imprisonment for certain offences",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) In section 20(1)( a ) of the Children and Young Persons Act (Northern Ireland) 1968 (cruelty to persons under 16) for the words “two years” there shall be substituted the words “ ten years ” .\n(5) This Article does not affect the punishment for an offence committed before it comes into operation.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 12(1)-(3) repealed (2.2.2009) by Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1769 (N.I. 2)), arts. 1(3), 81, 83, Sch. 1 para. 21, Sch. 3; S.R. 2008/510, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1968 c. 34 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1989/1344/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:47:09.874908+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."
}