25 Power and duty to remit offenders aged under 18 to youth courts for sentence

Chapter 3
Remission to Youth Court or other Magistrates' Court for Sentence

25  Power and duty to remit offenders aged under 18 to youth courts for sentence

(1)     This section applies where a person aged under 18 is convicted by or before a court (“the convicting court”) of an offence other than homicide.

(2)     If the convicting court is the Crown Court, it must remit the offender to a youth court acting for the place where the sending court sat, unless satisfied that it would be undesirable to do so.

The “sending court” is the magistrates' court which sent the offender to the Crown Court for trial.

[(2A)     If—

(a)     the convicting court is a magistrates' court, and

(b)     that court commits the offender to the

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