Criminal Justice Act 1991

2 In section 71AA of those Acts (young service offenders: custodial orders)—

(a) in subsection (1), for the words “not exceeding” there shall be substituted the words “which—

(a) shall be not less than the appropriate minimum period, that is to say—

(i) in the case of an offender who has attained eighteen years of age, the period of 21 days; or

(ii) in the case of an offender who is under that age, the period of two months; and

(b) shall not exceed”;

(b) subsection (1A) and, in subsection (1), the words “subject to subsection (1A) below” shall cease to have effect;

(c) before subsection (1B) there shall be inserted the following subsection—

“(1AA) The court shall not make a custodial order committing an offender aged 17 to be detained for a period exceeding twelve months or for a period such that the continuous period for which he is committed to be detained under that order and any one or more other custodial orders exceeds twelve months.”; and

(d) in subsection (6A), for the words “Section 15 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982” there shall be substituted the words “Section 65 of the Criminal Justice Act 1991”.