C1Part I Treatment of Young Offenders
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Custody and detention of persons under 21
1CF1 Accommodation of offenders sentenced to detention in a young offender institution.
1
Subject to section 22(2)(b) of the Prison Act M11952 (removal to hospital etc.), an offender sentenced to detention in a young offender institution shall be detained in such an institution unless a direction under this section is in force in relation to him.
2
The Secretary of State may from time to time direct that an offender sentenced to detention in a young offender institution shall be detained in a prison or remand centre instead of a young offender institution, but if he is under 17 at the time of the direction, only for a temporary purpose.
Pt. I (ss. 1–28) modified by Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33, SIF 39:1), s. 123(6), Sch. 8 paras. 11, 16