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TREATMENT OF OFFENDERS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 7 

Transfer of young offenders between institutions.

7.(1) The Minister may direct that a person under twenty-one years of age
detained in a young offenders centre

Para.(a) rep. by 1980 NI 10 art.4(3) sch.3

(b)be transferred to a prison, where that person is reported by a visiting
committee to the Minister to be incorrigible, or to be exercising a bad
influence on the other inmates of the centre; and the Minister may commute the
unexpired part of the term for which that person is then liable to be so
detained to a term of imprisonment equivalent to the said unexpired part, and
for the purposes of the Prison Act and this Act that person shall be treated
as if he had been sentenced to imprisonment or committed to prison and
detained in prison from the date on which his sentence began to run or, as the
case may be, of his committal.

Subs.(2) rep. by 1980 NI 10 art.4(3) sch.3

(3) The Minister may, in the case of any person who is under twenty-one years
of age and who is serving a sentence of imprisonment under which he would not
normally be released within the three months then next following or who has
been committed to prison, transfer that person to a young offenders centre and
upon such transfer such person may be detained for a term equal to the
unexpired part of his sentence or, as the case may be, of his committal; and
for the purposes of the Prison Act and this Act, he shall be treated as if he
had been ordered to be detained in a young offenders centre and detained in
such centre from the date on which his period of detention began to run.

Subs.(4) rep. by 1980 NI 10 art.4(3) sch.3

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