PART IIFURTHER PROVISIONS WITH RESPECT TO TREATMENT OF OFFENDERS

Suspended Sentences

20Court which shall deal with a suspended sentence or order for detention.

(1)

An offender may be dealt with in respect of a suspended sentence or order for detention by [F1 the Crown Court or], where the sentence or order for detention was passed or made by a magistrates' court, by any magistrates' court before which he appears or is brought.

Subs. (2) rep. by 1978 c. 23

(3)

Where an offender is convicted by a magistrates' court of an offenceF2 punishable with imprisonment in the case of a person aged twenty-one years or over and the court is satisfied that the offence was committed during the operational period of a suspended sentence or order for detention passed or made by [F1 the Crown Court]—

(a)

the court may commit him in custody or on bail to [F1 the Crown Court] …F3 to be dealt with …F3 in respect of that sentence or order; and

(b)

if it does not, shall furnish written notice of the conviction to the appropriate officer of the court by which the suspended sentence or order for detention was passed or made.

Subs.(4) rep. by 1978 c.23

(5)

For the purposes of this section and section 21 a suspended sentence or order for detention passed or made on or in relation to an offender on appeal shall be treated as having been passed or made by the court by which he was originally [F1 tried].