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CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 1

1.(1) No person shall be sentenced by a court to penal servitude; and every
enactment which operates to empower a court to pass a sentence of penal
servitude in any case shall operate so as to empower that court to pass a
sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding the maximum term of penal
servitude for which a sentence could have been passed in that case immediately
before the commencement of this Act.

(2) No person shall be sentenced by a court to imprisonment with hard labour;
and every enactment which operates to empower a court to pass a sentence of
imprisonment with hard labour in any case shall operate so as to empower that
court to pass a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding the term for
which a sentence of imprisonment with hard labour could have been passed in
that case immediately before the commencement of this Act; and so far as any
enactment in force immediately before the commencement of this Act requires or
permits prisoners to be kept to hard labour it shall cease to have effect and
accordingly the words "with or without hard labour" wherever occurring in any
enactment prescribing the punishment for an offence are hereby repealed.

(3) So far as any enactment in force immediately before the commencement of
this Act provides that a person sentenced to imprisonment or committed to
prison is or may be directed to be treated as an offender of a particular
division, or to be placed in a separate division, it shall cease to have
effect.

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