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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 1999 (NO. 63 OF 1999) - SECT 123 Powers of Supreme Court

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 1999 (NO. 63 OF 1999) - SECT 123

Powers of Supreme Court

(1)     If a young person is convicted of an offence by the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court may—

        (a)     make any order with respect to the young person, issue any warrants, and do any other acts and things, that the Childrens Court could have made, issued or done if the young person had been convicted by the Childrens Court; or

        (b)     make an order committing the young person to an institution or a State institution for a stated period not longer than the period of imprisonment that could have been imposed in respect of the offence if the offence had been committed by an adult; or

        (c)     deal with the young person in a way in which it might have dealt with the young person if he or she had been an adult at the time of the commission of the offence.

(2)     If, in accordance with paragraph (1) (c), a young person is sentenced to imprisonment, the sentence has effect subject to a law of a State in which the young person is detained relating to the detention of young people (however described).