CRIMINAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 7 Powers of dealing with offenders.

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CRIMINAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 7

Powers of dealing with offenders.

7.(1) Where a person is convicted on indictment of an offence under any
enactment and is for that offence liable to be sentenced to imprisonment, but
the sentence is not by any enactment either limited to a specified term or
expressed to extend to imprisonment for life, the person so convicted shall be
liable to imprisonment for not more than two years.

(2) A person convicted on indictment of an attempt to commit an offence for
which a maximum term of imprisonment or a maximum fine is provided by an
enactment, shall not be sentenced to imprisonment for a term longer, nor to a
fine larger, than that to which he could be sentenced for the completed
offence.

(3) Where a person is convicted on indictment of any offence other than an
offence for which the court is required by law to sentence the offender to
death or imprisonment for life or to detention during the pleasure of the
Governor of Northern Ireland, the court, if not precluded from sentencing the
offender by its exercise of some other power (such as the power to make a
probation order), may impose a fine in lieu of or in addition to dealing with
him in any other way in which the court has power to deal with him, subject
however to any enactment limiting the amount of the fine that may be imposed
or requiring the court to sentence the offender to imprisonment or otherwise
to deal with him in a particular way (as opposed merely to authorising the
court so to sentence or deal with him).

(4) Notwithstanding anything in any enactment, where

(a)a person is convicted of an offence (other than an offence for which the
court is required by law to sentence the offender to imprisonment for life or
to detention during the pleasure of the Governor of Northern Ireland) by
reason only of his having aided, abetted, counselled or procured its
commission; and

(b)upon such conviction a sentence of imprisonment would, but for this
subsection, be required by law to be imposed on him;

(5) Notwithstanding anything in any enactment whereby power is conferred on a
court, on a person's conviction of an offence, to bind him over to keep the
peace or be of good behaviour or to keep the peace and be of good behaviour,
that power may be exercised without sentencing the person convicted to a fine
or to imprisonment.

Subs.(6) amends s.5 of 1950 c.7 (NI)

(7) There is hereby abolished so much of the punishment for any offence as
consists in any general forfeiture of lands or of goods and chattels or in
being placed outside Her Majesty's protection or otherwise incapacitated to
sue or be sued.

S.8 rep. by 1978 c.23 s.122(2) sch.7

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CRIMINAL LAW ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 7