FIFTH GROUP OF PARTS

Sentencing: miscellaneous provision and interpretation
PART 13

Interpretation

Age of the offender
405
1
This section applies for the purposes of any provision of this Code which requires a person's age to be determined by the court or the Secretary of State.
2
The person is to be deemed to be whatever age the person appears to the court, or, as the case may be, the Secretary of State, to be.
3
For this purpose, the court or Secretary of State must consider any available evidence.
Ss. 403-405 applied (with modifications) by 2008 c. 4, s. 39(6)(a), Sch 7 (as amended (1.12.2020) by Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17), s. 416(1), Sch. 24 paras. 266(5), 270 (with Sch. 24 para. 447, Sch. 27); S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2)
S. 405 in force at 1.12.2020 by S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2