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Section 269: Detention in a young offender institution: consecutive sentences

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

Part 10: Custodial sentences — CHAPTER 3: Adults aged under 21

Where—

an offender is convicted of more than one offence for which a sentence of detention in a young offender institution is available, or
an offender who is serving a sentence of detention in a young offender institution is convicted of one or more further offences for which a sentence of detention in a young offender institution is available,

the court has the same power to pass consecutive sentences of detention in a young offender institution as if they were sentences of imprisonment.

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