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Paragraph 16

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

In section 39 of that Act (interpretation)—

(a)

in subsection (1), the following definition shall be substituted for the defintion of “appropriate institution”—

  • ““appropriate institution”, in relation to any person, means, subject to subsection (1A) of this section, any institution which would be appropriate for the detention of an offender of the same age serving an equivalent sentence passed by a court in the place to which he has been transferred;”; and

(b)

the following subsections shall be inserted after that subsection—

“(1A)

Subsection (1) of this section shall have effect in relation to a person serving a sentence of a length which could not have been passed on an offender of his age by a court in the place to which he has been transferred as if it defined “appropriate institution" as meaning such place as the Secretary of State may direct.

(1B)

Any reference in this Act to a sentence being equivalent to another sentence is to be construed as a reference to its having been so designated under section 38(6) of this Act.”.