{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transfer-of-offenders-designation-of-equivalent-sentences-amendment-order-1988/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transfer-of-offenders-designation-of-equivalent-sentences-amendment-order-1988/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1654",
  "legislation_title": "The Transfer of Offenders (Designation of Equivalent Sentences) (Amendment) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transfer-of-offenders-designation-of-equivalent-sentences-amendment-order-1988",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Schedule 1 to the 1983 Order shall be amended as follows:\n(a) without prejudice to paragraph (f) below, for each reference to a youth custody sentence under section 6 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 there shall be substituted a reference to detention in a young offender institution under section 1A of the Criminal Justice Act 1982;\n(b) In Part I, the entry in column 1 “Detention centre order under section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982” and the entries in column 2 specifying in relation to it equivalent sentences in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Jersey, shall be omitted;\n(c) In Part II, the entry in column 1 “Borstal training”, and the entries in column 2 specifying in relation to equivalent sentences in England and Wales, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, shall be omitted;\n(d) In Part II, in the entry in column 2 specifying an equivalent sentence in England and Wales to a sentence of detention in a detention centre (which is specified in column 1) for the words “a detention centre order under section 4” there shall be substituted the words “detention in a young offender institution under section 1A”;\n(e) In Part III, in paragraph (b) of the entry in column 2 specifying an equivalent sentence in England and Wales to imprisonment for a determinate period (which is specified in column 1) the words “not less than 15 but” shall be omitted;\n(f) In Part III, for the entry in column 2 specifying an equivalent sentence in England and Wales to detention in a young offenders centre (which is specified in column 1) there shall be substituted the following:\n“In England and Wales, detention in a young offender institution under section 1A of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 for the like term”;\n(g) Any reference to imprisonment in the Isle of Man, except any reference to imprisonment for life, shall be construed as a reference to imprisonment or youth custody.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 1A was inserted by section 123(4) of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1654/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:57:37.345498+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."
}