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Youth Justice Act 1992
sec.217Multiple orders of detention and imprisonment against person as adult and child
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### sec.217 Multiple orders of detention and imprisonment against person as adult and child
Sections 212 and 213 extend to a case where—
at the time a court makes a detention order against a person as a child, the person is serving or has been sentenced to serve a term of imprisonment as an adult; or
at the time a court makes an order sentencing a person to a term of imprisonment as an adult, the person is serving or has been sentenced to serve a period of detention as a child;
as if a reference in the sections to a period of detention included a reference to the term of imprisonment mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) .
s 217 prev s 217 om 2000 No. 60 s 175 sch 3
pres s 217 amd 1996 No. 22 s 59 ; 1998 No. 39 s 39 ; 1999 No. 9 s 3 sch ; 2002 No. 39 s 82
- (a) at the time a court makes a detention order against a person as a child, the person is serving or has been sentenced to serve a term of imprisonment as an adult; or
- (b) at the time a court makes an order sentencing a person to a term of imprisonment as an adult, the person is serving or has been sentenced to serve a period of detention as a child;