Part 8: Youth justice Section 159: Consecutive detention and training and sentence of detention: effect of early release decision
This section amends the Code and the CJA 2003. It makes amendments to fix an existing discrepancy in relation to early release which meant that different lengths of early release were available for offenders sentenced to a DTO and another sentence consecutively, depending on the order in which they received those sentences. The amendments make it so that where an offender is serving a DTO and another sentence consecutively, the offender is able to benefit from the same amount of early release regardless of the order in which the sentences are given.