Criminal Justice Act 1988

Prison Act 1952 (c. 52)U.K.

11U.K. The following paragraph shall be inserted after paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 43 of the Prison Act 1952—

(aa)young offender institutions, that is to say places for the detention of offenders sentenced to detention in a young offender institution;.

12U.K.In subsection (3) of that section, for the word “or" there shall be substituted the words “and a person aged 17 years or over may be detained in such a centre".