Part V CUSTODIAL SENTENCES ETC.

C1 Chapter IIDetention and custody of young offenders

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1

Pt. 5 Ch. 2 power to modify, amend or repeal conferred (30.9.2003) by Armed Forces Act 2001 (c. 19), ss. 31(1)(a)(3)(6)(7), 39(2); S.I. 2003/2268, art. 2

Detention at Her Majesty’s pleasure or for specified period

90 Offenders who commit murder F1etc. when under 18: duty to detain at Her Majesty’s pleasure.

Where a person convicted of murder F1or any other offence the sentence for which is fixed by law as life imprisonment appears to the court to have been aged under 18 at the time the offence was committed, the court shall (notwithstanding anything in this or any other Act) sentence him to be detained during Her Majesty’s pleasure.