(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order makes miscellaneous amendments to the powers of courts to deal with offenders. It enables probation orders to require offenders to participate in certain activities or to attend at certain places or day centres. It reduces from three years to two the maximum term of training school orders and increases from three years to four years the maximum term of detention in a young offenders centre. It provides for persons aged between 17 and 21 to be remanded or committed to custody in a young offenders centre. The Order also reduces from seventeen years to sixteen years the minimum age at which a community service order may be made, abolishes recorded sentences, increases the maximum term of imprisonment for certain offences and amends the law relating to attendance centre orders, suspended sentences, deferred sentences and the trial of juvenile offenders.