Explanatory note

This Order makes amendments to the Transfer of Offenders (Designation of Equivalent Sentences) Order 1983, which designates equivalent sentences for the purpose of transfer of offenders between different parts of the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. The amendments are consequential on the changes to the sentencing powers of the Scottish courts made by section 45 of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1980, which with effect from 15th November 1983 abolishes the sentence of Borstal training and makes revised provision for the sentences of detention in a young offenders institution and detention in a detention centre.