Crime (Sentences) Act 1997

12 (1) Where a person’s transfer under paragraph 1(1)(a) [F1 or (2A)(a)], 2(1)(a) or 3(1)(a) above from Northern Ireland to England and Wales is a restricted transfer, subject to any conditions to which the transfer is subject, he shall be treated for the relevant purposes as if he had been remanded for an offence committed in England and Wales. U.K.

(2) Where a person’s transfer under paragraph 1(1)(b) [F2 or (2A)(b)], 2(1)(b) or 3(1)(b) above from Northern Ireland to England and Wales is a restricted transfer—

[F3 (a) sections 13(7) and 24 of the Prison Act (Northern Ireland) 1953, Articles 3 to 6 of the Treatment of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1976, Articles 26 to 28 of the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 and Articles 6 to 9 of the Life Sentences (Northern Ireland) Order 2001 or, as the case may require, section 1 of the Northern Ireland (Remission of Sentences) Act 1995 [F4 or Chapter 4 of Part 2 of the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2008] shall apply to him in place of the corresponding provisions of the law of England and Wales;]

(b) subject to that, to sub-paragraph (3) below and to any conditions to which the transfer is subject, he shall be treated for the relevant purposes as if that sentence had been an equivalent sentence passed by a court in England and Wales.

(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.

[F5 (3A) Where a transfer under paragraph 1, 2 or 3 is the subject of an order or direction made by the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland, any reference in sub-paragraph (3) to the Secretary of State must be read as a reference to the Department of Justice.]

(4) Where a transfer under paragraph 4(1) of a person’s supervision from Northern Ireland to England and Wales is a restricted transfer, subject to any conditions to which the transfer is subject, he 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 England and Wales.

(5) Any provision of the M1 Prison Act (Northern Ireland) 1953, the M2 Treatment of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1976, the M3 Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 or the M4 Northern Ireland (Remission of Sentences) Act 1995 [F6 or Chapter 4 of Part 2 of the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2008] which is applied by sub-paragraph (2) above shall have effect (as so applied) as if any reference to an expression specified in the first column of the following Table were a reference to the expression set out opposite it in the second column of that Table.

Table

Expression	Substituted Expression
Complaint on oath	Information on oath
Court of summary jurisdiction	Magistrates’ court
F7 . . .	F7 . . .

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 1 para. 12(1) inserted (14.7.2004) by Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2004 (c. 4), ss. 13(6)(a), 19(1); S.R. 2004/267, art. 2

F2 Words in Sch. 1 para. 12(2) inserted (14.7.2004) by Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2004 (c. 4), ss. 13(6)(b), 19(1); S.R. 2004/267, art. 2

F3 Sch. 1 para. 12(2)(a) substituted (E.W.N.I.) (8.10.2001) by S.I. 2001/2565, arts. 1(2), 3(2); S.R. 2001/337, art. 2

F4 Words in Sch. 1 para. 12(2)(a) inserted (15.5.2008) by The Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland Consequential Amendments) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1241), arts. 1(2), 3(2) (see S.R. 2008/217, art. 2, Sch.)

F5 Sch. 1 para. 12(3A) 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. 23 (with arts. 28-31)

F6 Words in Sch. 1 para. 12(5) inserted (15.5.2008) by The Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland Consequential Amendments) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1241), arts. 1(2), 3(2) (see S.R. 2008/217, art. 2, Sch.)

F7 Entry in Sch. 1 para. 12 repealed (30.9.1998) by 1998 c. 37, ss. 119, 120(2), Sch. 8 para. 135(7), Sch. 10; S.I. 1998/2327, art. 2(2)(oo)(3)(x).

Marginal Citations

M1 1953 c.18 (N.I.).

M2 S.I. 1976/226 (N.I.4).

M3 S.I. 1996/3160 (N.I.24).

M4 1995 c.47.