SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 14 Minor and Consequential Amendments
Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 (c. 43)
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The following section shall be inserted after section 96 of that Act—
96A Application of Part III to persons aged 17 to 20.
This Part of this act shall have effect in relation to a person aged 17 or over but less than 21 as if any reference to committing a person to prison, or fixing a term of imprisonment for a default, were a reference to committing the person to, or, as the case may be, to fixing a term of, detention under section 9 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982; and any reference to warrants of commitment, or to periods of imprisonment imposed for default, shall be construed accordingly.