The Secure Training Order (Transitory Provisions) Order 1998

3.  Sections 2 and 4 of the 1994 Act shall have effect, in relation to any such time, as if–

(a) for subsections (2) and (3) of section 2 there were substituted the following subsection–

“(2) Where accommodation for the offender at a secure training centre is not immediately available–

(a) the court shall commit the offender to accommodation provided by a local authority for the purpose of restricting the liberty of children and young persons until such time as accommodation for him at such a centre is available; and

(b) the period of detention in the centre under the order shall be reduced by the period spent by the offender in the accommodation so provided.”;

(b) in subsection (5) of that section, for the words “subsections (2)(a)(ii) and (4)(b) apply” there were substituted the words “subsection (4)(b) applies”;

(c) for subsection (8) of that section there were substituted the following subsection–

“(8) In this section “local authority” has the same meaning as in the Children Act 1989.”; and

(d) in subsection (4) of section 4, for the words “paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of subsection (2) and subsections (5), (7) and (8) of section 2” there were substituted the words “paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (2) and subsections (7) and (8) of section 2”.