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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 1999 (NO. 63 OF 1999) - SECT 99 Prohibition on certain orders

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 1999 (NO. 63 OF 1999) - SECT 99

Prohibition on certain orders

(1)     The court may not make an order

        (a)     for the imprisonment of a young person; or

        (b)     releasing a young person on the young person giving security to be of good behaviour; or

        (c)     of a kind mentioned in paragraph 96 (1) (h), (i), (j), (k) or (l)—

              (i)     if the court would not, if the offence had been committed by an adult, have been empowered to sentence the adult to imprisonment; or

              (ii)     unless satisfied that, in the circumstances, no other order that might be made is appropriate; or

              (iii)     for a period 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.

(2)     Nothing in paragraph (1) (b) affects the power of the court under section 556A (Conditional release of offenders without proceeding to conviction) or 556B (Conditional release of offenders) of the Crimes Act 1900 .