{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-sentences-act-1997/section-54",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-sentences-act-1997/section-54.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1997/43",
  "legislation_title": "Crime (Sentences) Act 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-sentences-act-1997",
  "path": "section/54",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "54",
  "heading": "General interpretation.",
  "text": "(1) In this Act—\n“the 1933 Act” means the Children and Young Persons Act 1933;\n“the 1969 Act” means the Children and Young Persons Act 1969;\n“the 1973 Act” means the Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973;\n“the 1980 Act” means the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980;\n“the 1982 Act” means the Criminal Justice Act 1982;\n“the 1983 Act” means the Mental Health Act 1983;\n“the 1991 Act” means the Criminal Justice Act 1991.\n“local probation board” means a local probation board established under section 4 of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000;\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) Where an offence is found to have been committed over a period of two or more days, or at some time during a period of two or more days, it shall be taken for the purposes of this Act to have been committed on the last of those days.\n(4) For the purposes of any provision of this Act which requires the determination of the age of a person by the court, his age shall be deemed to be that which it appears to the court to be after considering any available evidence.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 54(1): definition of “local probation board” inserted (1.4.2001) by 2000 c. 43, s. 74, Sch. 7 Pt. II para. 141; S.I. 2001/919, art. 2(f)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 54(2) repealed (30.9.1998) by 1998 c. 37, ss. 119, 120(2), Sch. 8 para. 133, Sch. 10; S.I. 1998/2327, art. 2(2)(nn)(3)(x)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 54(4) added (30.9.1998) by 1998 c. 37, s. 106, Sch. 7 para. 53; S.I. 1998/2327, art. 2(1)(w)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1933 c.12."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1969 c.54."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1973 c.62."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "1980 c.43."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M5",
      "text": "1982 c.48."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M6",
      "text": "1983 c.20."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M7",
      "text": "1991 c.53."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": null,
      "affecting": "ukpga/2000/43",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice and Courts Services Act 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": null,
      "affecting": "ukpga/2000/43",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice and Courts Services Act 2000"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/43/section/54",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:24:59.837778+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}