Section 18 — Sentencing Act 2002: Limitation on imprisonment of person under 17 years

18 Limitation on imprisonment of person under 17 years (1) No court may impose a sentence of imprisonment on an offender in respect of a particular offence, other than a purely indictable offence, if, at the time of the commission of the offence, the offender was under the age of 17 years. (2) In subsection (1) , purely indictable offence means any indictable offence within the meaning of section 2(1) of the Summary Proceedings Act 1957 , other than an offence for which, under section 6 of that Act, proceedings may be taken in a summary way in accordance with that Act. Compare: 1985 No 120 s 8