Sentencing Act 2020

Age limit for imposing imprisonment

42In 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”.