The Recovery of Costs (Remand to Youth Detention Accommodation) (Amendment) Regulations 2014

Statutory Instruments

2014 No. 562

Criminal Law, England And Wales

The Recovery of Costs (Remand to Youth Detention Accommodation) (Amendment) Regulations 2014

Made

5th March 2014

Laid before Parliament

11th March 2014

Coming into force

1st April 2014

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 103(2)(a) and (6) of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012(1).

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Recovery of Costs (Remand to Youth Detention Accommodation) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 and come into force on 1st April 2014.

Amendment to the Recovery of Costs (Remand to Youth Detention Accommodation) Regulations 2013

2.  Regulation 3 of the Recovery of Costs (Remand to Youth Detention Accommodation) Regulations 2013(2) is amended as follows—

(a) in paragraph (3)(b)(i), after “£580” insert “(subject to paragraph (6))”;

(b) for paragraph (4) substitute—

“(4) The applicable amount, in the case of a child who is remanded to a young offender institution, means—

(a) on or after 1st July 2013 (but before 1st April 2014), £157;

(b) on or after 1st April 2014, £158.”;

(c) in paragraph (5)—

(i) in sub-paragraph (a), after “2013” insert “(but before 1st December 2013)”;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (b), after “2013” insert “(but before 1st April 2014)”; and

(iii) after sub-paragraph (b) insert—

“(c) on or after 1st April 2014, £581.”;

(d) after paragraph (5), insert—

“(6) The applicable amount, in the case of a child who is remanded to a secure children’s home, means—

(a) on or after 1st April 2014 (but before 1st May 2014), £561;

(b) on or after 1st May 2014, £555.”.

Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State

Jeremy Wright

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Ministry of Justice

5th March 2014

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Recovery of Costs (Remand to Youth Detention Accommodation) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/507) by inserting new amounts which local authorities are liable to pay the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales in respect of each night on which a child is detained on remand in a young offender institution, a secure training centre or a secure children’s home on or after 1^st April 2014. In the case of secure children’s homes, the Regulations also insert a new amount in respect of each night on which a child is detained on or after 1st May 2014.

(1)

2012 c.10.

(2)

S.I. 2013/507, amended by S.I. 2013/2243.