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Sentencing Act 2002

Sentences, orders, and related matters - Miscellaneous, transitional, and savings provisions - Transitional and savings provisions

160: Person under 17 years of age imprisoned

You could also call this:

"What happens if you're sentenced to prison for a crime you committed when you were under 17"

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If you were given a prison sentence for a crime before a certain date, and you were under 17 years old when you committed the crime, this section applies to you. You had to have been sentenced for a crime that is not a purely indictable offence, which is explained in section 18. At the time of your crime, you were still a child, but you had already been sentenced as an adult.

You will still have to follow the sentence you were given, even though you were under 17 years old when you committed the crime. This means the rules that apply to adults in prison will still apply to you.

Nothing in section 143(2) will apply to you, which means some specific rules about prison sentences will not affect you.

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Part 2Sentences, orders, and related matters
Miscellaneous, transitional, and savings provisions: Transitional and savings provisions

160Person under 17 years of age imprisoned

  1. This section applies if, immediately before the commencement date,—

  2. an offender was subject to a sentence of imprisonment imposed for any offence other than a purely indictable offence within the meaning of section 18; and
    1. at the time of the commission of that offence the offender had not attained the age of 17 years.

      1. The offender continues to be subject to the sentence despite the fact that at the time of the commission of the offence the offender had not attained the age of 17 years.

      2. Nothing in section 143(2) applies in respect of the offender.