New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CHILDREN (CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS) ACT 1987 - SECT 48E

48E Prescribed eligibility criteria

(1) The regulations may make provision for or with respect to the criteria ( "prescribed eligibility criteria") that a person must meet to be eligible to participate in the scheme in relation to relevant offences committed (or alleged to have been committed) while the person was a child.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1), the regulations may provide for persons who are 18 years old or older (but less than 21 years old) to continue to be eligible to participate in the scheme in relation to any relevant offences committed (or alleged to have been committed) by such persons while they were children.

(3) If the regulations make provision for persons who are no longer children to continue to be eligible to participate in the scheme, the other provisions of this Part (and any provisions of the regulations made for the purposes of this Part) extend to such persons as if they were still children.