CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES ACT 2005 - SECT 387 Court may impose youth supervision order

CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES ACT 2005 - SECT 387

(1)     If the Court finds a child guilty of one or more offences, whether indictable or summary, the Court may, with or without conviction, release the child on a youth supervision order for a specified term—

        (a)     not exceeding 12 months; or

        (b)     not exceeding 18 months if the offence or one of the offences is punishable by imprisonment for a term of more than 10 years—

and not extending beyond his or her twenty-first birthday.

    (2)     The Court may make an order under subsection (1) only if—

        (a)     the venue at which the Court is then sitting is in a prescribed region of the State; and

        (b)     the child has consented to the order being made.