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Section 329: Conversion of sentence of detention to sentence of imprisonment

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

Part 10: Custodial sentences — CHAPTER 9: Sentence administration

This section applies where a court has passed a relevant custodial sentence sentencing an offender to a term of detention and the offender—

has reached the age of 21, or
has reached the age of 18 and has been reported to the Secretary of State by the independent monitoring board of the institution in which the offender is detained as—
exercising a bad influence on the other inmates of the institution, or
behaving in a disruptive manner to the detriment of those inmates.

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