YOUNG OFFENDERS ACT 1993 - SECT 32
YOUNG OFFENDERS ACT 1993 - SECT 32
(1) The
Chief Executive must, at the request of a court by which a youth is to be
sentenced, have a report prepared on the social background and personal
circumstances of the youth.
(2) Such a report may
not contain any recommendation about sentence.
(3) Subject to
subsection (5), no report relating to the social background or personal
circumstances of a youth may be tendered to a court before the court has found
an offence proved against the youth.
(4) If a youth is
found not guilty by a court, any report relating to the social background or
personal circumstances of the youth prepared for the purposes of the
proceedings must be destroyed.
(5) This section does
not prevent the court from receiving during the course of a hearing any
psychiatric or medical evidence relating to the youth, insofar as that
evidence is relevant to the guilt or innocence of the youth.
(6) The court in
determining sentence must not take into account any matter given in evidence,
or appearing in any report presented, to the court, if the matter is disputed
by the youth, any guardian of the youth or the prosecutor, unless the court
has decided that the matter has been proved beyond reasonable doubt.