THIRD GROUP OF PARTSDisposals

PART 10Custodial sentences

CHAPTER 2Offenders aged under 18

Detention for life etc

259Offenders who commit murder etc when under 18: duty to detain at Her Majesty's pleasure

(1)

This section applies where—

(a)

a court is dealing with a person convicted of—

(i)

murder, or

(ii)

any other offence the sentence for which is fixed by law as life imprisonment, and

(b)

the person appears to the court to have been aged under 18 at the time the offence was committed.

(2)

The court must sentence the offender to be detained during Her Majesty's pleasure.

(3)

Subsection (2) applies notwithstanding anything in this or any other Act.