SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 22 Amendments of the Sentencing Code and related amendments of other legislation

PART 5 Custodial sentences

Age limit for imposing imprisonment

42 In section 224 (general limit on magistrates’ court’s power to impose imprisonment or detention in a young offender institution)—

(a) in subsection (1), for paragraphs (a) and (b) substitute “imprisonment”;

(b) in subsection (2), omit “or detention in a young offender institution”;

(c) in the heading, omit “or detention in a young offender institution”.