53Committal of young offenders convicted of certain serious offences
(1)In section 3B of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 (committal for sentence on indication of guilty plea by child or young person), for subsection (1) substitute—
“(1)This section applies where on the summary trial of an offence mentioned in section 91(1) of this Act a person aged under 18 is convicted of the offence.”
(2)For the heading of that section substitute “Committal for sentence of young offenders on summary trial of certain serious offences”.
(3)The amendment made by subsection (1) applies only if the person convicted of the offence first appeared in respect of the offence after the day on which the amendment comes into force.
(4)For the purposes of subsection (3), a person first appears in respect of an offence when the person first appears or is brought before a magistrates’ court in the proceedings in which the person is charged with the offence.