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[F1142APurposes etc. of sentencing: offenders under 18E+W
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(1)This section applies where a court is dealing with an offender aged under 18 in respect of an offence.
(2)The court must have regard to—
(a)the principal aim of the youth justice system (which is to prevent offending (or re-offending) by persons aged under 18: see section 37(1) of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998),
(b)in accordance with section 44 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933, the welfare of the offender, and
(c)the purposes of sentencing mentioned in subsection (3) (so far as it is not required to do so by paragraph (a)).
(3)Those purposes of sentencing are—
(a)the punishment of offenders,
(b)the reform and rehabilitation of offenders,
(c)the protection of the public, and
(d)the making of reparation by offenders to persons affected by their offences.
(4)This section does not apply—
(a)to an offence the sentence for which is fixed by law,
(b)to an offence the sentence for which falls to be imposed under—
(i)section 51A(2) of the Firearms Act 1968 (minimum sentence for certain firearms offences),
(ii)section 29(6) of the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 (minimum sentences in certain cases of using someone to mind a weapon), or
(iii)section 226(2) of this Act (detention for life for certain dangerous offenders), or
(c)in relation to the making under Part 3 of the Mental Health Act 1983 of a hospital order (with or without a restriction order), an interim hospital order, a hospital direction or a limitation direction.]
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F1S. 142A inserted (prosp.) by Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (c. 4), ss. 9(1), 153
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