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TREATMENT OF OFFENDERS (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1976 - SECT 16 



16.(1) Without prejudice to section 11 of the Probation Act (Northern Ireland)
1950 or to section 41 of the Prison Act (Northern Ireland) 1953, the Secretary
of State may, with the approval of the Treasury,

(a)provide and maintain bail hostels and other establishments for use in
connection with the rehabilitation of offenders; or

(b)enter into arrangements with voluntary societies or other persons whereby
such societies or persons undertake, on such terms (including terms as to
payment by the Secretary of State to those societies or persons of such sums
as may be agreed upon) as may be specified in the arrangements, to provide and
maintain such establishments as are mentioned in sub-paragraph (a).

(2) The Secretary of State may, with the approval of the Treasury, give
financial and other assistance to persons remanded on bail.

(3) The Secretary of State may make rules for the regulation, management and
inspection of bail hostels and other establishments provided by the Secretary
of State under this Article or in respect of which arrangements have been
entered into by the Secretary of State under this Article.

(4) An inspector appointed by the Secretary of State to inspect any such
establishment as is mentioned in paragraph (1) shall, on production if
required of his credentials, have power at any reasonable time to enter the
establishment and to make such investigation of the treatment of any persons
residing there as he thinks fit.

(5) Any person who obstructs any inspector in the exercise of the powers
conferred by paragraph (4) shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not
exceeding #10.

Art.17 repeals s.14 of 1953 c.18 (NI)

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