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PRISON ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 23

Release on licence of persons serving imprisonment for life.

23.(1) Subject to compliance with such conditions, if any, as the Minister may
from time to time determine, the Minister may at any time if he thinks fit
release on licence a person serving a term of imprisonment for life.

(2) The Minister may at any time by order recall to prison a person released
on licence under this section, but without prejudice to the power of the
Minister to release him on licence again; and where any person is so recalled
his licence shall cease to have effect and he shall, if at large, be deemed to
be unlawfully at large.


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