Part I Criminal Jurisdiction and Procedure
Powers in respect of offenders
37 Committal to Crown Court with a view to borstal sentence.
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Where a person who is not less than 15 F2but under F318 years old is convicted by a magistrates’ court of an offence punishable on conviction on indictment with a term of imprisonment exceeding six months, then, if the court is of opinion that he should be sentenced to a greater term of youth custody than it has power to impose, the court may F4, subject to section 25 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, commit him in custody or on bail to the Crown Court for sentence.
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A person committed in custody under subsection (1) above shall be committed—
a
if the court has been notified by the Secretary of State that a remand centre is available for the reception, from that court, of persons of the class or description of the person committed, to a remand centre;
b
if the court has not been so notified, to a prison.