# The Transfer of Offenders (Designation of Equivalent Sentences) (Amendment) Order 1988, Article 2


Schedule 1 to the 1983 Order shall be amended as follows:
(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;
(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;
(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;
(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”;
(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;
(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:
“In England and Wales, detention in a young offender institution under section 1A of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 for the like term”;
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1654/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/transfer-of-offenders-designation-of-equivalent-sentences-amendment-order-1988/article-2
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