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TREATMENT OF OFFENDERS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 8

Transfer to prison of persons over twenty-one and maximum age for detention in a young offenders centre.

8.(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, where a person ordered to be
detained in a young offenders centre has attained the age of twenty-one years,
the Minister may transfer him to prison.

(2) No person shall be detained in a young offenders centre after he has
attained the age of twenty-three years, and accordingly any person so detained
shall, not later than the day immediately preceding his twenty-third birthday,
be transferred to prison; but this subsection shall not apply to any person
who is detained in a young offenders centre

Para.(a) rep. by 1976 NI 4 art.19(3) sch.3; 1980 NI 10 art.4(3) sch.3

(b)in pursuance of an order made by a court under ... [... Article 3 of the
Treatment of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1976].

(3) Where a person has been transferred to prison under this section, he shall
be treated for the purposes of the Prison Act and this Act as if the
order for detention made in relation to him were a sentence of imprisonment or
an order of committal, and as if he had been detained in prison from the date
on which his sentence began to run or, as the case may be, of his committal.

Remand and committal of persons under twenty-one.

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