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Section 177: Youth rehabilitation order: availability

Sentencing Act 2020 · 2020 c. 17View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 9: Community sentences — CHAPTER 1: Youth rehabilitation orders

A youth rehabilitation order is available to a court by or before which an offender is convicted of an offence if the offender is aged under 18 at the time of the conviction.

Subsection (1) is subject to—

subsection (3), and
section 37(8) of the Mental Health Act 1983 (youth rehabilitation order not to be made in combination with hospital order or guardianship order in respect of same offence).

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