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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/schedule-16/paragraph-16A",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2020/17",
  "legislation_title": "Sentencing Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020",
  "path": "schedule/16/paragraph/16A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In the case of an offender under the age of 21—\n(a) an order under paragraph 13(1)(da) must be for committal to a young offender institution instead of to prison, but\n(b) the Secretary of State may from time to time direct that a person committed to a young offender institution by such an order is to be detained in a prison or remand centre instead.\n(2) A person committed to prison or a young offender institution by an order under paragraph 13(1)(da) is to be regarded as being in legal custody.\n(3) No more than three orders under paragraph 13(1)(da) may be made in relation to the same suspended sentence order.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 16A and cross-heading inserted (28.6.2022) by Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), s. 208(5)(r), Sch. 14 para. 13(8)"
    }
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      "type": "omitted by 2020 c. 17, Sch. 10 para. 78A(a) (as inserted)",
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      "type": "words omitted by 2020 c. 17, Sch. 10 para. 78A(b) (as inserted)",
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    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2026/2",
      "affecting_title": "Sentencing Act 2026"
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:00:57.370248+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."
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