The Treatment of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1989

Northern Ireland Order in Council 1989 No. 1344 — creates 6 criminal offences.

6offences created

0recorded in force

0revoked

Made: 2 August 1989
In force from: 3 October 1989
Extent: Not stated
Subject: Miscellaneous
Made under: Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Act 1974

Explanatory note

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This Order makes miscellaneous amendments to the powers of courts to deal with offenders. It enables probation orders to require offenders to participate in certain activities or to attend at certain places or day centres. It reduces from three years to two the maximum term of training school orders and increases from three years to four years the maximum term of detention in a young offenders centre. It provides for persons aged between 17 and 21 to be remanded or committed to custody in a young offenders centre. The Order also reduces from seventeen years to sixteen years the minimum age at which a community service order may be made, abolishes recorded sentences, increases the maximum term of imprisonment for certain offences and amends the law relating to attendance centre orders, suspended sentences, deferred sentences and the trial of juvenile offenders.

Offences created by this instrument

In sections 18(3), 19(1), 19(4), 20(3) and 21(1) for “for which the court has power, or would, but for section 1, have… SCHEDULE 1 · Status not determined · Strict liability
b the offence is punishable with imprisonment in the case of a person aged twenty-one years or over SCHEDULE 1 · Status not determined · Strict liability
Detention in a young offenders centre article 5(1) · Status not determined · Strict liability
Detention in a young offenders centre article 5(1)(a) · Status not determined · Strict liability
Detention in a young offenders centre article 7(1) · Status not determined · Strict liability
Suspended sentences article 9(1) · Status not determined · Strict liability

What Parliament said about it

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Treatment Of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 Lords · Lords Chamber · 15 June 1989 · Lord Lyell
My Lords, I should like to thank the noble Lord, Lord Prys-Davies, for the close scrutiny, great care and attention that he has given to these two orders. As your Lordships will see by a cursory and preliminary examination, they cover a very broad spectrum of the treatment of offenders and a particular aspect of Northern Ireland which, sadly, is very prevalent and very necessary. The questions and points put by the noble Lord, Lord Prys-Davies, show that as always he has considered every aspect; and we are grateful for his scrutiny, and on this occasion his advice on these facets. As an…
Business Lords · Lords Chamber · 15 June 1989 · Lord Denham
My Lords, it may be for the convenience of the House if I announce that the Committee stage of the Electricity Bill will be adjourned at approximately 7 p.m. for approximately one hour and that during this adjournment the Treatment of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 and the Community Service Orders (Northern Ireland Consequential Amendments) Order 1989 will be taken.
Treatment Of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 Lords · Lords Chamber · 15 June 1989
Provisions Supplementary To Section (Confiscation Orders) Commons · Commons Chamber · 6 March 1991
(2) If a court considers that it requires further information before making a confiscation order against a defendant, it may, subject to subsection (3) below, postpone making such an order for a period not exceeding six months after the date of conviction for the purpose of enabling that information to be obtained; but, without prejudice to Article 11 of the Treatment of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1989, the court may notwithstanding such postponement proceed to sentence or to otherwise deal with the defendant in respect of the conviction.
Criminal Justice Bill Hl Lords · Lords Chamber · 26 July 1993
"on that account— (a) postpone making the confiscation order for such period as it may specify, or (b) where it has already exercised its powers under this section to postpone, extend the specified period; but, without prejudice to Article 11 of the Treatment of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1989, the court may notwithstanding any postponement under this section proceed to sentence or otherwise deal with the defendant in respect of the conviction.".

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