THIRD GROUP OF PARTSDisposals

PART 10Custodial sentences

CHAPTER 2Offenders aged under 18

Detention for life etc

I1259Offenders who commit murder etc when under 18: duty to detain at Her Majesty's pleasure

1

This section applies where—

a

a court is dealing with a person convicted of—

i

murder, or

ii

any other offence the sentence for which is fixed by law as life imprisonment, and

b

the person appears to the court to have been aged under 18 at the time the offence was committed.

2

The court must sentence the offender to be detained during Her Majesty's pleasure.

3

Subsection (2) applies notwithstanding anything in this or any other Act.