Criminal Justice Act 1988

12An offender who was sentenced to youth custody on a date before the commencement of section 1A of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 or who was ordered to be detained in a detention centre before that date shall, if the sentence or order has not expired at the commencement of that section, be treated for all purposes of detention. release and supervision as if he had been sentenced to detention for the like term in a young offender institution.