Point in time view as at 01/01/2000.
There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Children and Young Persons Act 1969, Cross Heading: The Criminal Justice Act 1948.
Marginal Citations
23E+W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1
Textual Amendments
24E+WFor section 27 of the said Act of 1948 there shall be substituted the following section:—
(1)Where a court remands a person charged with or convicted of an offence or commits him for trial or sentence and he is not less than seventeen but under twenty-one years old and is not released on bail, then, if the court has been notified by the Secretary of State that a remand centre is available for the reception from the court of persons of his class or description, it shall commit him to a remand centre and, if it has not been so notified, it shall commit him to a prison.
(2)Where a person is committed to a remand centre in pursuance of this section, the centre shall be specified in the warrant and he shall be detained there for the period for which he is remanded or until he is delivered thence in due course of law.
(3)In this section “court” includes a justice; and nothing in this section affects the provisions of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1952 (which provides for remands to the custody of a constable).”
25, 26.E+W+S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2
Textual Amendments
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