2.—(1) The Magistrates' Courts (Children and Young Persons) Rules 1992(1) shall be amended as follows.

(2) For rule 28 there shall be substituted the following rule–

28.  Where a young person is remanded or committed under subsection (4) of section 23 of the Act of 1969 (as modified by section 98 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998) to:

(a)local authority accommodation with a requirement that he be placed and kept in secure accommodation;

(b)a remand centre; or

(c)a prison,

the court shall record in the warrant of commitment that it has declared as mentioned in that subsection.

(3) In Schedule 2, in forms 12, 14 and 20 (warrants of commitment for remand or committal to local authority accommodation), before the words “it is hereby ordered”, there shall be inserted the following words–.

[It is hereby declared that the defendant is a person to whom section 23(5) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969 applies:].

(1)

S.I. 1992/2071, amended by S.I. 1997/2420 and 1998/2167.