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(1) This Order may be cited as the 
Criminal Justice and Armed Forces (Northern Ireland Consequential Amendments)
Order 1980.
(2) This Order shall come into operation
on the day appointed under 
Article 1 of the Treatment of Offenders
(Northern Ireland) Order 1980 for the coming
into operation of that Order.
(3) This Order extends to the whole of the
United Kingdom.
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(1) In the 
Criminal Justice Act 1961—
(a) in section
26—
(i) subsection
(3) is hereby repealed;
(ii) in subsection
(5)—(a) after the word “Kingdom”
 where it first occurs insert the words “other than Northern
Ireland”;(b) in paragraph
(a) of the proviso after the words 
“from England and Wales” insert the words “to
Scotland”;(c) in paragraphs
(a) and (b)
of the proviso the words “or Northern Ireland”
are hereby repealed;
(iii) after 
subsection (5) insert the following subsection:—
“
(5A) Where a person sentenced
to borstal training is transferred under this section to Northern Ireland,
the provisions applicable to him shall be those applicable to a person ordered
to be detained in a young offenders centre for a term of two years by a court
in Northern Ireland on the date on which he was sentenced to borstal training.”;

(b) in section
29(1) after the words “detention
centre” and in section 30(3)
after the words “borstal institution” insert the
words “young offenders centre”;
(c) in section
32(2) for 
paragraph (d) substitute the following paragraph:—
“
(d) 
section 23 of the Prison Act (Northern
Ireland) 1953;”;
(d) in section
38(5) after paragraph (b)
insert the following paragraph:—“
(bb) an order for detention
in a young offenders centre made in Northern Ireland shall be treated as a
sentence of imprisonment for the like term;”;
(e) in section
39(1)—
(i) in paragraph
(a) of the definition of “appropriate
institution” after the word “Kingdom”
insert the words “other than Northern Ireland”;

(ii) after 
paragraph (bb) of that definition
insert the following paragraph:—“
(bbb) in relation to a
person sentenced when under twenty-one years of age to—(a) imprisonment for less than three years;
(b) borstal training;(c) detention in Scotland;who is so removed to Northern Ireland, a young offenders centre;”.

(2) 
Schedule 3 to the Treatment of Offenders
Act (Northern Ireland) 1968 in so far as it
amends the Criminal Justice Act 1961
and the Criminal Justice Act
1967 is hereby repealed.
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In Schedule 5A to the 
Army Act 1955, 
Schedule 5A to the 
Air Force Act 1955 and 
Schedule 4A to the
Naval Discipline Act 1957 in 
paragraph 10(6) for head (c)
substitute the following head:—“
(c) where the offender
is removed to Northern Ireland, a young offenders centre;”.
N.E. Leigh
Clerk of the Privy Council
