CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 1999 (NO. 63 OF 1999) - SECT 118 Referral to Mental Health Tribunal following conviction

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 1999 (NO. 63 OF 1999) - SECT 118

(1)     This section applies if—

        (a)     a young person has been convicted by the court of an offence; and

        (b)     the court is satisfied that the young person is mentally dysfunctional or mentally ill.

(2)     If this section applies, the court may, before sentencing the young person, order him or her to submit to the jurisdiction of the Mental Health Tribunal to allow the tribunal—

        (a)     to decide whether or not the young person is mentally dysfunctional or mentally ill; and

        (b)     if the tribunal decides that the young person is mentally dysfunctional or mentally ill—to make recommendations as to how the young person should be dealt with.

(3)     If the tribunal notifies the court that the young person is mentally dysfunctional or mentally ill, the court must make such orders as it considers appropriate.

(4)     The orders that the court may make include an order that the young person submit to the jurisdiction of the tribunal to allow the tribunal to make a mental health order.