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Attendance at court of parent
of child or young person charged with an offence, etc.
[cf. 1933 c. 12, s. 34.]
Power to order parent to pay fine, etc. instead
of child or young person.
1908 c. 67, s. 99.
CAP. 226]
Juvenile Offenders
[1983 Ed.
(8) Before deciding how to deal with the child or young person the court shall obtain such information as may be readily available as to his general conduct, home surroundings, school record, and medical history, in order to enable it to deal with the case in the best interests of the child or young person, and may put to him any question arising out of such information. For the purpose of obtaining such information or for special medical examination or observation or for the purpose of considering how to deal with the case in the best interests of the child or young person the court may from time to time remand the child or young person on bail or to a place of detention.
(9) If the child or young person admits the offence or the court is satisfied that it is proved, and the court decides that a remand is necessary for purposes of inquiry or observation, the court may cause an entry to be made in the court register that the charge is proved and that the child or young person has been remanded. The court before which a child or young person so remanded is brought may without further proof of the commission of the offence make any order in respect of the child or young person which could have been made by the court which so remanded the child or young person.
(Amended, 15 of 1973, s. 8)
9. (1) Subject to subsection (1A), where a child or young person is charged with any offence or is brought before a court under the provisions of this or any other Ordinance, his parent or guardian shall, unless the court otherwise orders, attend before the court during all stages of the proceedings; and the court may compel the attendance of the parent or guardian as if he were required as a witness in the proceedings. (Replaced, 15 of 1973, s. 9)
(1A) If it appears to a court to be necessary to do so in the interest of a child or young person, the court may require his parent or guardian to withdraw from the court. (Added, 15 of 1973, s. 9)
(2) Where a child or young person is arrested, the police officer by whom he is arrested or the officer in charge of the police station to which he is brought shall, if the parent or guardian lives within a reasonable distance and can be found, cause him to be warned to attend at the court before which the child or young person will be brought.
10. (1) Where a child or young person is charged before any court with any offence for the commission of which a fine, damages or costs may be imposed, and the court is of opinion that the case would be best met by the imposition of a fine, damages, or costs, whether with or without any other punishment, the court may in any case, and shall if the offender is a child, order that the fine, damages, or costs awarded be paid by the parent or guardian of the child or young person instead of by the child or young person, unless the court is satisfied that the parent or guardian cannot be found or that