Commentary on Provisions Places where children can no longer be detained Section 22 – abolition of remand centres
100.Section 22 also amends section 19 of the Prisons (Scotland) Act 1989. Under that section, the Scottish Ministers have a duty to provide remand centres – places where those aged at least 14 but under 21 and remanded in custody either for trial or while awaiting sentence can be held. There are no remand centres in Scotland and the amendments remove the duty to provide them.
101.Part 6 of the schedule of the Act contains a number of further repeals which remove redundant and unnecessary references to “remand centres” in legislation.