SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 8U.K. Minor and consequential amendments

Prison Act 1952 (c.52)U.K.

7(1)In subsection (1) of section 49 of that Act (persons unlawfully at large), for the words from “imprisonment” to “secure training centre” there shall be substituted the words “ imprisonment or custody for life or ordered to be detained in secure accommodation or in a young offenders institution ”.U.K.

(2)In subsection (2) of that section—

(a)for the words from “imprisonment” to “secure training centre” there shall be substituted the words “ imprisonment, or ordered to be detained in secure accommodation or in a young offenders institution ”; and

(b)for the words from “in a prison” to “secure training centre” there shall be substituted the words “ in a prison or remand centre, in secure accommodation or in a young offenders institution ”.

(3)After subsection (4) of that section there shall be inserted the following subsection—

(5)In this section “secure accommodation” means—

(a)a young offender institution;

(b)a secure training centre; or

(c)any other accommodation that is secure accommodation within the meaning given by section 75(7) of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (detention and training orders).

Extent Information

E1Sch.8 para.7(2) extends to England and Wales only, see s. 121(6)(g).