Children and Young Persons Act 1969 (c. 54)
9(1)Section 23B (report by local authority in certain cases where person remanded on bail) is amended as follows.
(2)In subsection (2), at the end insert “under section 91(3) of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.”
(3)In subsection (3), for “section 23(2) of this Act” substitute “section 92(2) of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012”.
(4)In subsection (6)—
(a)in paragraph (a), for “17” substitute “18”, and
(b)for paragraph (b) and the “and” at the end of that paragraph substitute—
“(b)the requirements in section 94(3) and (4) or 95(3) and (4) of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 would have been fulfilled if the person had not been remanded on bail, and”.
(5)In subsection (7), in the definition of “serious offence”, after “means” insert “(subject to subsection (8))”.
(6)After subsection (7) insert—
“(8)For the purposes of the application of this section to a person remanded on bail in connection with proceedings under the Extradition Act 2003—
(a)an offence is a “serious offence” if the conduct constituting the offence would, if committed in England and Wales, constitute an offence punishable in the case of an adult with imprisonment for a term of two years or more, and
(b)the reference in subsection (1)(a) to a person being charged with a serious offence includes a reference to the person having been accused of such an offence.”