{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/section-405",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/section-405.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2020/17",
  "legislation_title": "Sentencing Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020",
  "path": "section/405",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "405",
  "heading": "Age of the offender",
  "text": "(1) This section applies for the purposes of any provision of this Code which requires a person's age to be determined by the court or the Secretary of State.\n(2) The person is to be deemed to be whatever age the person appears to the court, or, as the case may be, the Secretary of State, to be.\n(3) For this purpose, the court or Secretary of State must consider any available evidence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 403-405 applied (with modifications) by 2008 c. 4, s. 39(6)(a), Sch 7 (as amended (1.12.2020) by Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17), s. 416(1), Sch. 24 paras. 266(5), 270 (with Sch. 24 para. 447, Sch. 27); S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 405 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/405",
    "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."
}