Part III Penalties

45 Detention of young defenders

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C13

In the 1975 Act, sections 204 and 414 (Borstal training) and sections 209 and 418 (detention in detention centre) shall cease to have effect.

4

Without prejudice to any specific amendment made by this Act, in Scotland a reference in any enactment to which this subsection applies—

a

to a Borstal institution, shall be construed as a reference to a young offenders institution; and

b

to a period of training in a Borstal institution, shall be construed as a reference to a period of detention in a young offenders institution.

5

The enactments to which subsection (4) above applies are—

a

any Act passed before, or during the same session as, this Act; and

b

any subordinate legislation made before the commencement of this Act;

and in this subsection

“Act” and “subordinate legislation” have the same meanings as in the M1Interpretation Act 1978.