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CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES ACT 2005 - SECT 409B Court may make youth control order

CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES ACT 2005 - SECT 409B

Court may make youth control order

    (1)     The Court may make a youth control order in respect of a child if—

        (a)     the Court convicts the child of one or more offences whether indictable or summary; and

        (b)     the Court considers that the child would otherwise be sentenced to detention in a youth justice centre or a youth residential centre as a result of the gravity or habitual nature of the child's unlawful behaviour.

    (2)     The term of a youth control order must not exceed 12 months and must not extend beyond the child's twenty-first birthday.

    (3)     The power to make a youth control order is subject to the restrictions set out in section 409C.

S. 409C inserted by No. 43/2017 s. 13.