{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-1980/section-96A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-1980/section-96A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/43",
  "legislation_title": "Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-1980",
  "path": "section/96A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "96A",
  "heading": "Application of Part III to persons aged 17 to 20.",
  "text": "This Part of this Act shall have effect in relation to a person aged 18 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 108 of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000; and any reference to warrants of commitment, or to periods of imprisonment imposed for default, shall be construed accordingly.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 96A inserted by Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 77, Sch. 14 para. 54"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 96A substituted (1.10.1992) by Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53, SIF 39:1), ss. 68, 101(1), Sch. 8 para. 6(3), Sch. 12 para. 22(1); S.I. 1992/333, art. 2(2), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 96A substituted (28.5.2000) by 2000 c. 6, ss. 165, 168(1), Sch. 9 para. 70 (which Sch. 9 para. 70 of the amending Act is repealed (prosp.) by 2000 c. 43, ss. 74, 75, 80(1), Sch. 7 Pt. II para. 203(2), Sch. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "2000 c. 6."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": null,
      "affecting": "ukpga/2000/43",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": null,
      "affecting": "ukpga/2000/43",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000"
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/43/section/96A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:26:47.197891+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."
}