Detention and transfer of young offendersS

19 [F1Young] offenders institutions.S

(1)The Secretary of State may provide—

F2(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b)young offenders institutions, that is to say, places in which offenders sentenced to detention in a young [F3persons not less than 18 but under 21 years of age—

(i)sentenced to detention in a young offenders institution, or

(ii)remanded or committed in custody for trial or sentence,

may be kept.]

F4(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F5(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F6(4)Subject to any exception or modification in any provision of this Act and unless the context otherwise requires, this Act applies to F7... young offenders institutions and to persons detained in such F8... institutions in the same manner as it applies to prisons and prisoners.

(5)Section 11(4) and (5) does not apply to young offenders institutions.

(6)Sections 1 to 3, 4 to 6, 9, 10, 11(1), 13 to 17, 33A to 37 and 41 to 41D apply to F9... young offenders institutions and to persons detained there in the same manner as those provisions apply to prisons and prisoners subject to such adaptations and modifications as may be made by rules made under section 39.]

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