{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/section-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/section-26.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2020/17",
  "legislation_title": "Sentencing Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020",
  "path": "section/26",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Remission by Crown Court to youth court or other magistrates’ court: custody or bail, and appeals",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where the Crown Court remits an offender to a youth court under section 25 or a magistrates’ court under section 25A.\n(2) The Crown Court may, subject to section 25 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (restrictions on granting bail), give such directions as appear to be necessary—\n(a) with respect to the custody of the offender, or\n(b) for the offender's release on bail,\nuntil the offender can appear or be brought before the youth court or magistrates’ court.\n(3) The offender—\n(a) has no right of appeal against the order of remission, but\n(b) has the same right of appeal against an order of the youth court or magistrates’ court as if convicted by that court.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 26(1) inserted (28.4.2022) by Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), s. 51(1), Sch. 2 para. 14(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 26(2) inserted (28.4.2022) by Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), s. 51(1), Sch. 2 para. 14(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 26(3)(b) inserted (28.4.2022) by Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), s. 51(1), Sch. 2 para. 14(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 26 heading inserted (28.4.2022) by Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), s. 51(1), Sch. 2 para. 14(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 26 in force at 1.12.2020 by S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2020/17/section/26",
    "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."
}