5Detention of defaulters aged 14 to 16
(1)In any case where a court has power, or would have power but for the statutory restrictions upon the imprisonment of young offenders, to commit to prison for any default a person under seventeen but not less than fourteen years of age, the court may, subject to the provisions of this section, commit him to a detention centre or to a remand home for any term not exceeding the term for which he could but for any such restriction have been committed to prison.
(2)Except as provided by the following provisions of this Part of this Act, a person shall not be committed under this section to a detention centre—
(a)for a term of one month or less; or
(b)for any term exceeding six months,
and shall not be committed thereunder to a remand home for a term exceeding one month.
(3)Subsection (3) of section four of this Act shall apply in relation to the committal of any person to a detention centre under this section as it applies in relation to the making of an order for the detention of an offender under that section.
(4)This section applies in relation to the fixing of a term of imprisonment to be served in the event of default of payment of a fine or other sum of money as it applies in relation to committal to prison in default of such payment; and in any such case subsection (2) of this section shall apply in relation to the term fixed by the court, and not to that term as reduced by virtue of any subsequent payment.
(5)Subject to the foregoing provisions of this section, Part III of the Magistrates' Courts Act, 1952, and sections fourteen and fifteen of the Criminal Justice Act, 1948, shall have effect as if references to imprisonment included references to detention under this section ; and references in those enactments, or in any other enactment relating to the satisfaction and enforcement of fines, recognizances and orders, to a prison or to the governor of a prison shall be construed accordingly.