Transfer of Prisoners (Restricted Transfers) (Channel Islands and Isle of Man) Order 1998

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved

1998 No. 2798

CRIMINAL LAW, ENGLAND AND WALES

CRIMINAL LAW, NORTHERN IRELAND

CRIMINAL LAW, SCOTLAND

The Transfer of Prisoners (Restricted Transfers) (Channel Islands and Isle of Man) Order 1998

Made 17th November 1998

Laid before Parliament 27th November 1998

Coming into force 18th December 1998

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 17th day of November 1998

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in pursuance of paragraph 14 of Schedule 1 to the Crime (Sentences) Act 19971as enacted, and as it applies in relation to the Isle of Man by the Transfer of Prisoners (Isle of Man) Order 19972and section 121(12)(a) of the Crime and Disorder Act 19983, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—

S-1 This Order may be cited as the Transfer of Prisoners...

1. This Order may be cited as the Transfer of Prisoners (Restricted Transfers) (Channel Islands and Isle of Man) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 18th December 1998.

S-2 The provisions specified in Schedule 1 to this Order shall...

2. The provisions specified in Schedule 1 to this Order shall apply in relation to restricted transfers under Part I of Schedule 1 to the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997 between the various parts of the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands, and between those parts and the Isle of Man.

S-3 The transitional provisions in Schedule 2 to this Order shall...

3. The transitional provisions in Schedule 2 to this Order shall have effect.

S-4 In the Schedules to this Order— “ Guernsey ” means the...

4. In the Schedules to this Order—

“Guernsey” means the Bailiwick of Guernsey;

“Jersey” means the Bailiwick of Jersey;

“the Act” means the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997;

“the 1991 Act” means the Criminal Justice Act 19914;

“the 1993 Act” means the Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Act 19935;

“the 1998 Act” means the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.

S-5 The Transfer of Prisoners (Restricted Transfers) (Channel...

5. The Transfer of Prisoners (Restricted Transfers) (Channel Islands and Isle of Man) Order 19976is hereby revoked.

A. K. Galloway

Clerk of the Privy Council

SCHEDULE 1

Article 2

PROVISIONS APPLYING TO RESTRICTED TRANSFERS BETWEEN THE VARIOUS PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE CHANNEL ISLANDS, AND BETWEEN THOSE PARTS AND THE ISLE OF MAN

SCH-1.1

1. In this Schedule—

“the Schedule” means Schedule 1 to the Act;

“prison” has the same meaning as in the Schedule.

SCH-1.2

2. Restricted Transfers from England and Wales to Guernsey

(1) Where a person’s transfer under paragraph 1(1)(a), 2(1)(a) or 3(1)(a) of the Schedule from England and Wales to Guernsey is a restricted transfer, subject to any conditions to which the transfer is subject, he shall be treated for the relevant purposes as if he had been remanded for an offence committed in Guernsey.

(2) Where a person’s transfer under paragraph 1(1)(b), 2(1)(b) or 3(1)(b) of the Schedule from England and Wales to Guernsey is a restricted transfer—

(a)

(a) sections 33 to 40, 41 to 46 and 65 (but not subsections (1A) or (1B) of that section) of the 1991 Act, paragraphs 8, 10 to 13 and 19 of Schedule 12 to that Act7and sections 75 to 77 of the 1998 Act or, as the case may require, sections 28 to 32 and 34 of the Act shall apply to him in place of the corresponding provisions of the law of Guernsey; but

(b)

(b) subject to that, to sub-paragraph (3) below and to any conditions to which the transfer is subject, he shall be treated for the relevant purposes as if his sentence had been an equivalent sentence passed by a court in Guernsey.

(3) A person who has been sentenced to a sentence of a length which could not have been passed on an offender of his age in the place to which he has been transferred shall be treated for the purposes mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) above as the Secretary of State may direct.

(4) Where a transfer under paragraph 4(1) of the Schedule of a person’s supervision from England and Wales to Guernsey is a restricted transfer—

(a)

(a) sections 37 to 40, 42 to 46 and 65 (but not subsections (1A) or (1B) of that section) of the 1991 Act, paragraphs 8, 10 to 13 and 19 of Schedule 12 to that Act and sections 76 and 77 of the 1998 Act or, as the case may require, sections 31, 32 and 34 of the Act shall apply to him in place of the corresponding provisions of the law of Guernsey; but

(b)

(b) subject to that and to any conditions to which the transfer is subject, he shall be treated for the relevant purposes as if his period of supervision had been an equivalent period of supervision directed to be undergone in Guernsey.

(5) Any provision of Part II of the 1991 Act or of Part II of the Act which is applied by sub-paragraph (2) or (4) above shall have effect (as so applied) as if any reference to an expression specified in the first column of the following Table were a reference to the expression set out opposite it in the second column of that Table

TABLE

Expression

Substituted Expression

Crown Court

Royal Court

Level 3 on the standard scale

Level 3 on the uniform scale provided by the Scale of Uniform Fines (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 1989

Summary conviction

Conviction in the Magistrate’s Court.

(6) Section 34A(2)(e) of the 1991 Act, as applied by paragraph (2) above, shall have effect as if the reference to removal from the United Kingdom were a reference to removal from Guernsey.

(7) Section 37(4A) of the 1991 Act, as applied by sub-paragraph (2) or (4) above, shall have effect as if for the words from “supervision by” to the end there were substituted the words “supervision by a probation officer”.

(8) Section 38 of the 1991 Act, as applied by sub-paragraph (2) or (4) above, shall have effect as if the reference to the magistrates' court were a reference to the Magistrate’s Court.

(9) Section 40 of the 1991 Act, as applied by sub-paragraph (2) or (4) above, shall have effect as if—

(a)

(a) any reference to a magistrates' court or to the magistrates' court were a reference to the Magistrate’s Court; and

(b)

(b) in subsection (3)(b), the words “subject to section 25 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 19948,” were omitted.

(10) Section 41 of the 1991 Act, as applied by sub-paragraph (2) above, shall have effect as if section 67 of the Criminal Justice Act 19679or, as the case may be, section 9 of the Act extended to Guernsey.

(11) Section 42 of the 1991 Act, as applied by sub-paragraph (2) or (4) above, shall have effect as if the reference to prison rules (being rules made under section 47 of the Prison Act 195210) were a reference to the provisions of an Ordinance made under section 3 of the Prison Administration (Guernsey) Law, 1949, as substituted by section 1 of the Prison Administration (Amendment) (Guernsey) Law, 1957.

(12) Section 46 of the 1991 Act, as applied by sub-paragraph (2) or (4) above, shall have effect as if—

(a)

(a) any reference to removal from the United Kingdom were a reference to removal from Guernsey; and

(b)

(b) for paragraphs (a) to (d) of subsection (3) there were substituted—

“(a)

“(a) he is liable to deportation under section 3(5) or (6) of the Immigration Act 197111as that section has effect in the United Kingdom and has been notified of a decision to make a deportation order against him;

(b)

(b) he is liable to deportation under the above section 3(5) as it extends to Guernsey under the Immigration (Guernsey) Order 199312and has been notified of a decision to make a deportation order against him;

(c)

(c) he is liable to deportation under the above section 3(6) as it extends to Guernsey under that Order; or

(d)

(d) he has been notified of a decision to refuse him leave to enter the United Kingdom or Guernsey.”.

(13) Section 65 of the 1991 Act, as applied by sub-paragraph (2) or (4) above, shall have effect as if—

(a)

(a) in subsection (1), for the words from “supervision of” to the end there were substituted the words “supervision of a probation officer”; and

(b)

(b) in subsection (7), for the words “detention in a young offender institution” there shall be substituted the words “youth detention”.

(14) Paragraph 10 of Schedule 12 to the 1991 Act, as applied by sub-paragraph (2) or (4) above, shall have effect as if the reference to prison rules were a reference to an Ordinance.

SCH-1.3

3. Restricted Transfers from England and Wales to the Isle of Man

(1) Where a person’s transfer under paragraph 1(1)(a), 2(1)(a) or 3(1)(a)13of the Schedule from England and Wales to the Isle of Man is a restricted transfer, subject to any conditions to which the transfer is subject, he shall be treated for the relevant purposes as if he had been remanded for an offence committed in the Isle of Man.

(2) Where a person’s transfer under paragraph 1(1)(b), 2(1)(b) or 3(1)(b) of the Schedule from England and Wales to the Isle of Man is a restricted transfer—

(a)

(a) sections 33 to 37, 39, 41 to 46 and 65 (but not subsections (1A) and (1B) of that section) of the 1991 Act, paragraphs 8, 10 to 13 and 19 of Schedule 12 to that Act and sections 75 to 77 of the 1998 Act or, as the case may require, sections 28 to 32 and 34 of the Act shall apply to him in place of the corresponding provisions of the law of the Isle of Man; but

(b)

(b) subject to that, to sub-paragraph (3) below and to any conditions to which the transfer is subject, he shall be treated for the relevant purposes as if his sentence had been an equivalent sentence passed by a court in the Isle of Man.

(3) A person who has been sentenced to a sentence of a length which could not have been passed on an offender of his age in the place to which he has been transferred shall be treated for the purposes mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) above as the Secretary of State may direct.

(4) Where a transfer under paragraph 4(1)14of the Schedule of a person’s supervision from England and Wales to the Isle of Man is a restricted transfer—

(a)

(a) sections 37, 39, 42 to 46 and 65 (but not subsections (1A) and...

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