{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1948/section-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1948/section-27.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/11-12/58",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice Act 1948",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1948",
  "path": "section/27",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Remand of persons aged 18 to 20.",
  "text": "(1) Where a court remands a person charged with or convicted of an offence or sends him to the Crown Court for trial or commits him there for sentence and he is not less than eighteen but under twenty–one years old and is not released on bail, then, if the court has been notified by the Secretary of State that a remand centre is available for the reception from the court of persons of his class or description, it shall commit him to a remand centre and, if it has not been so notified, it shall commit him to a prison.\n(2) Where a person is committed to a remand centre in pursuance of this section, the centre shall be specified in the warrant and he shall be detained there for the period for which he is remanded or until he is delivered thence in due course of law.\n(3) In this section “ court ” includes a justice; and nothing in this section affects the provisions of section 128(7) of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 (which provides for remands to the custody of a constable).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 27 substituted by Children and Young Persons Act 1969 (c. 54), Sch. 5 para. 24"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 27(1) substituted (9.5.2005 for specified purposes, 18.6.2012 for specified purposes, 5.11.2012 for specified purposes, 28.5.2013 for specified purposes) by Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44), s. 336(3)(4), Sch. 3 para. 35(2); S.I. 2005/1267, art. 2(1)(2)(a), Sch. Pt. 1; S.I. 2012/1320, art. 4 (with art. 5); S.I. 2012/2574, art. 2 (with arts. 3, 4); S.I. 2013/1103, art. 2 (with arts. 3, 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 27(1) substituted (3.12.2012) by Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10), s. 151(1), Sch. 12 para. 3; S.I. 2012/2906, art. 2(j)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words substituted by Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43, SIF 82), Sch. 7 para. 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in s. 27 heading substituted (3.12.2012) by Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10), s. 151(1), Sch. 12 para. 2; S.I. 2012/2906, art. 2(j)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2000/43",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice and Courts Services Act 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "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/Geo6/11-12/58/section/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:22:38.347332+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."
}