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TREATMENT OF OFFENDERS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 1

1.(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), and without prejudice to any other
enactment prohibiting or restricting the imprisonment of persons of or below a
specified age, a court shall not pass a sentence of imprisonment on, or commit
to prison for any default, a person who has not attained twenty-one years of
age.

(2) Nothing in subsection (1) shall affect the power of a court to pass a
sentence of imprisonment (where the court has power to pass such a sentence)
for a term of three years or more.

(3) Subsection (1) shall not apply in the case of a person who is serving a
sentence of imprisonment at the time when the court passes sentence ....

(4) Nothing in subsection (1) shall affect the power of the Minister of Home
Affairs (in this Act referred to as "the Minister") to commute to a term of
imprisonment

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

(b)a term of detention in a young offenders centre under section 7(1)(b) of
this Act.

Young offenders centres and remand centres.

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