Part IIU.K. Amendments Relating to the Armed Forces and Other Persons Subject to Provisions of the Services Acts

Young offendersU.K.

3 Young service offenders: minimum period of custodial orders etc.U.K.

(1)In section 71AA of each of the 1955 Acts and in section 43AA of the 1957 Act (young service offenders: custodial orders), in subsection (1) the words “subject to subsection (1A) below ” shall be omitted and after the words “period to be specified in the order ” there shall be inserted “being not less than 21 days and ”.

(2)Subsection (1A) of each of those sections shall be omitted.

(3)Subject to subsection (4) below, in subsection (1B) of each of those sections for the words from “there is ” to “in respect of him ” there shall be substituted “ it is satisfied as mentioned in sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii) of subsection (1E) of section 71A of this Act with respect to any person ”.

(4)In the application of subsection (3) above to section 43AA of the 1957 Act, for “section 71A ” there shall be substituted “section 43A ”.