Crime (Sentences) Act 1997

Unrestricted transfers: general U.K.

15 (1) Where a person’s transfer under paragraph 1(1)(a) or (2)(a), 2(1)(a) or (2)(a) or 3(1)(a) or (2)(a) above to any part of the United Kingdom or to any of the Channel Islands is an unrestricted transfer, he shall be treated for the relevant purposes as if he had been remanded for an offence committed in the place to which he is transferred. U.K.

(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (3) below, where a person’s transfer under paragraph 1(1)(b) or (2)(b), 2(1)(b) or (2)(b) or 3(1)(b) or (2)(b) above to any part of the United Kingdom or to any of the Channel Islands is an unrestricted transfer, he shall be treated for the relevant purposes as if his sentence had been an equivalent sentence passed by a court in the place to which he is transferred.

(3) A person who has been sentenced to a sentence of a length which could not have been passed on an offender of his age in the place to which he has been transferred shall be treated for the purposes mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) above as the Secretary of State may direct.

(4) Where a transfer under paragraph 4(1) or (2) above of a person’s supervision to any part of the United Kingdom or to any of the Channel Islands is an unrestricted transfer—

(a) that person shall be treated for the relevant purposes as if his period of supervision had been an equivalent period of supervision directed to be undergone in the place to which he is transferred; and

(b) any functions of the Secretary of State under any provision of the law of that place which applies for those purposes shall be exercisable in relation to that person by any person appointed by the Secretary of State for the purpose.

[F1 (4A) [F2 Sub-paragraphs (3) and (4) have] effect subject to the following modifications—

(a) in relation to a person transferred to Northern Ireland, any reference in sub-paragraph (3) above to the Secretary of State must be read as a reference to the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland;

(b) in relation to a person whose supervision has been transferred to Northern Ireland, sub-paragraph (4)(b) above applies as if—

(i) after “Secretary of State” where it first occurs there were inserted “or the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland”, and

(ii) after “Secretary of State” where it occurs second there were inserted “or the Department of Justice (as the case may be)”.]

[F3 (4B) A person who is subject to a period of supervision of a type or length which could not have been imposed on an offender in the place to which the person has been transferred is to be treated for the relevant purposes as the receiving authority may direct.

(4C) In sub-paragraph (4B), “the receiving authority” means—

(a) in relation to a person transferred to Scotland, the Scottish Ministers,

(b) in relation to a person transferred to Northern Ireland, the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland, and

(c) in relation to any other person, the Secretary of State.]

F4 (5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 1 para. 15(4A) inserted (12.4.2010) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), art. 1(2), Sch. 8 para. 25 (with arts. 28-31)

F2 Words in Sch. 1 para. 15(4) substituted (1.2.2015) by Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014 (c. 11), s. 22(1), Sch. 3 para. 6(2) (with Sch. 7 para. 2); S.I. 2015/40, art. 2(u)

F3 Sch. 1 para. 15(4B)(4C) inserted (1.2.2015) by Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014 (c. 11), s. 22(1), Sch. 3 para. 6(3) (with Sch. 7 para. 2); S.I. 2015/40, art. 2(u)

F4 Sch. 1 para. 15(5) repealed (4.4.2005) by Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44), s. 336(3)(4), Sch. 32 para. 85(5), Sch. 37 Pt. 7; S.I. 2005/950, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 paras. 42(32), 44(4)(o) (with Sch. 2) (as explained (29.7.2005) by S.I. 2005/2122, art. 2; and as amended: (14.7.2008) by 2008 c. 4, Sch. 26 para. 78, Sch. 28 Pt. 2; S.I. 2008/1586, Sch. 1 paras. 48(s), 50(2)(d); (30.11.2009) by S.I. 2009/3111, art. 2; (3.12.2012) by S.I. 2012/2905, art. 4; (3.12.2012) by 2012 c. 10, Sch. 14 para. 17; S.I. 2012/2906, art. 2(l))

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Sch. 1 para. 15 extended (with modifications) (1.10.1997) by S.I. 1997/1775, art. 2,Sch.; S.I. 1997/2200, art.2

Sch. 1 para. 15 modified (28.7.1998) by 1998 c. 35, s. 17, Sch. 3 para. 9(5); S.I. 1998/1858, art.2.

C2 Sch. 1 para. 15(3)(4)(5) amended (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/1280, arts. 1(2), 4, Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 130(10); S.I. 1998/3178, art. 3