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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/section-235",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/section-235.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2020/17",
  "legislation_title": "Sentencing Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020",
  "path": "section/235",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "235",
  "heading": "Exercise of power to make a detention and training order",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where a detention and training order is available.\n(2) The court may not make a detention and training order if it imposes—\n(a) a sentence of detention under section 250, or\n(b) an extended sentence of detention under section 254,\nin respect of the offence.\n(3) If the offender is aged under 15 when convicted the court may not make a detention and training order unless it is of the opinion that the offender is a persistent offender.\n(4) The court's power to make a detention and training order is subject to (in particular) section 230 (threshold for imposing discretionary custodial sentence).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 235 in force at 1.12.2020 by S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2020/17",
      "affecting_title": "Sentencing Act 2020"
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2020/17/section/235",
    "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."
}