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9. Power to make orders.

Where a child or young person¹ is convicted of an offence which is punishable with imprisonment in the case of a person aged 21² or over³ the court⁴ may make a detention and training order⁵, which is an order that the offender in respect of whom it is made is to be subject, for the term specified in the order, to a period of detention and training followed by a period of supervision⁶. There are two circumstances in which the court may make such an order:

(1) where it is of the opinion that that the offence, or the

(2) Detention Of Young Persons

8. Detention of serious offenders aged under 18.

9. Power to make orders.

10. Making the order.

11. The period of detention and training.

12. Period of supervision of offender subject to detention and training order.

13. Breach of supervision requirements of detention and training order.

14. Offences during currency of detention and training order.

15. Interaction with other sentences.

16. Power to order detention.

17. Term of detention.