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Paragraph 47

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

In section 24(3) of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 (powers of sentencing with respect to persons under the age of 17 tried summarily for indictable offences) for the words following the word “section" there shall be substituted the words

“1(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1982, it could have sentenced him to imprisonment for a term not exceeding—

(a)

the maximum term of imprisonment for the offence on conviction on indictment; or

(b)

six months,

whichever is the less. ”.