SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 17Transfer of suspended sentence orders to Scotland or Northern Ireland

PART 2Northern Ireland

5Amendment of relevant suspended sentence order to become an NISSO

1

This paragraph applies where—

a

a relevant suspended sentence order is in force,

b

the appropriate court is satisfied that the offender—

i

resides in Northern Ireland, or

ii

proposes to reside there, and

c

it appears to the court that suitable arrangements for the offender’s supervision can be made by the Probation Board for Northern Ireland.

2

The power of the appropriate court to amend the order under Part 3 of Schedule 16 (“the amendment power”) includes power to amend the order by requiring—

a

the order to be complied with in Northern Ireland, and

b

the offender to be supervised in accordance with the arrangements referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(c).

3

But the appropriate court may exercise the amendment power in that way only if the order (as amended) will satisfy paragraphs 8 and 9.