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Criminal Justice Act 1991
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30For subsection (5) of section 1 of the 1982 Act (general restrictions on custodial sentences) there shall be substituted the following subsections—
“(5)No court shall commit a person under 21 years of age to be detained under section 9 below unless it is of the opinion that no other method of dealing with him is appropriate; and in forming any such opinion, the court—
(a)shall take into account all such information about the circumstances of the default or contempt (including any aggravating or mitigating factors) as is available to it; and
(b)may take into account any information about that person which is before it.
(5A)Where a magistrates' court commits a person under 21 years of age to be detained under section 9 below, it shall—
(a)state in open court the reason for its opinion that no other method of dealing with him is appropriate; and
(b)cause that reason to be specified in the warrant of commitment and to be entered in the register.”
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