Youth Justice Act 1997
88Multiple orders of detention and imprisonment against person as adult and youth
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88 Multiple orders of detention and imprisonment against person as adult and youth
(1) Sections 84 , 85 , 86 and 87 extend to a case where at the time the Court makes a detention order against a youth, the youth is serving or has been sentenced to serve a term of imprisonment in a prison as if a reference in those sections to a period of detention included a reference to the term of imprisonment.
(2) If a youth is liable to serve a term of imprisonment in a prison concurrently with a period of detention –
(a) the period must be served as a term of imprisonment in a prison; and
(b) the period of deprivation of liberty under the term of imprisonment must be counted as part of the period of detention; and
(c) any period of deprivation of liberty served in the detention centre –
(i) is a period of detention served; and
(ii) must be counted as part of the term of imprisonment in the prison.