New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CHILDREN (CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS) ACT 1987 - SECT 20

20 Remission of persons to the Children’s Court for punishment

(1) A court may remit a person to whom this Division applies to the Children’s Court, in respect of any indictable offence other than a serious children’s indictable offence, so as to enable the Children’s Court to impose a penalty on the person with respect to the offence, but may do so only in respect of a person who is under the age of 21 years.

(2) A court that remits a person under this section:

(a) may, subject to the Bail Act 1978 , commit the person to custody until the person can appear or be brought before the Children’s Court, and

(b) shall cause to be sent to the Registrar of the Children’s Court a certificate that:

(i) sets out the nature of the offence, and

(ii) states that the person has been found guilty of the offence and is being remitted to the Children’s Court under this section.

(3) The Children’s Court may deal with a person who has been remitted to it in respect of an offence in any way in which it could have dealt with the person had the person been tried and found guilty of the offence by the Children’s Court.