SCHEDULE 9 Transitional Provisions and Savings

SCHEDULE 9 Transitional Provisions and Savings

Section 120(1)

Presumption of incapacity

1

Nothing in section 34 of this Act shall apply in relation to anything done before the commencement of that section.

Effect of child's silence at trial

2

Nothing in section 35 of this Act shall apply where the offence was committed before the commencement of that section.

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Young offenders: cautions

5

(1)     Any caution given to a child or young person before the commencement of section 65 of this Act shall be treated for the purposes of subsections (2) and (4) of that section as a reprimand.

(2)     Any second or subsequent caution so given shall be treated for the purposes of paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (3) of that section as a warning.

Abolition of secure training orders

6

In relation to any time before the commencement of subsection (7) of section 73 of this Act, section 9A of the 1997 Act shall have effect as if after subsection (1) there were inserted the following subsection—

“(1A)     Section 9 above applies to periods of detention which offenders

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