15U.K.In section 38 of that Act (construction of references to imprisonment, detention, etc.)—
(a)in paragraph (a) of subsection (3)—
(i)after the word “imprisonment", in the second place where it occurs, there shall be inserted the words “custody for life, youth custody,"; and
(ii)for the words “or detention in a detention centre or young offenders institution" there shall be substituted the words “detention in a detention centre or young offenders institution or detention under an equivalent sentence passed by a court in the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man";
(b)the following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (5)—
“(6)The Secretary of State may by order designate as equivalent sentences for the purposes of this Act and of any enactment referred to in Part III of this Act a description of sentence which a court with jurisdiction in one part of the United Kingdom or in the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man may pass and a description of sentence which a court elsewhere in the United Kingdom or in those Islands may pass;”.