Miscella-
neous
provisions
as to powery of juvenile courts.
fer, 1993, 6. 12,
0.48.1
(Cap. 298,)
(3) No person shall be present at any sitting of
a juvenile court except-
(a) officers of the court;
(b) parties to the case before the court, their solicitors and counsel, and witnesses and other persons directly concerned in that
Case:
(c) bona fide representatives of newspapers or
news agencies;
(d) such other persons as the court specially authorize to be present.
may
(4) Notwithstanding subsection (3)(c) a juvenile court may exclude any representative of a newspaper or news agency from any sitting thereof.
3E. (1) A juvenile court sitting for the purpose of hearing a charge against a person who is believed to be a child or young person may proceed with the hearing and determination of the charge notwith- standing that it is discovered that the person in question is not a child or young person.
(2) The attainment of the age of sixteen years by a person-
(a) under supervision by virtue of a proba- tion order made under the Probation of Offenders Ordinance; or
(b) in whose case an order for conditional
discharge has been made,
shall not deprive a juvenile court of jurisdiction to-
(1) enforce his attendance and deal with bim for any contravention of the requirements
of the probation order or for the commis. sion of a further offence; or
(ii) amend or discharge the probation order.
(3) When a juvenile court has remanded a child
or young person for information to be obtained
about him, any juvenile court may-
(a) in his absence extend the period for which be is remanded, so, however, that he appears before a court at least once in every twenty-one days; and
(b) when the required information has been
obtained, deal with him finally.
Power of
other courts
to remit jovenile offenders to juvenile courts.
1, 1933, c. 12, K56)
5.
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3F. (1) If a child or young person is found guilty of an offence other than homicide by any court other than a juvenile court, the court shall, unless satisfied that it would be undesirable to do so, remit the case to a juvenile court; and where any such case is so remitted the offender shall be brought before the juvenile court accordingly, and that court may deal with him in any way in which it might have dealt with him if he had been tried and found guilty by that court.
(2) Where any case is so remitted-
(a) the offender shall have the same right of appeal against any order of the juvenile court to which the case is remitted as if he had been found guilty by that court, but shall bave no right of appeal against the order of remission; and
(b) any appeal against the finding of guilt shall be made in accordance with the provisions for appeal against the finding of the re- mitting court and the time within which such appeal shall be made shall run from the date of the final order of the juvenile court to which the case was remitted.
(3) A court by which an order remitting a case to a juvenile court is made under this section may give such directions as appear to be necessary for the custody of the offender or for his release on bail until he can be brought before the juvenile court. and shall cause to be transmitted to the juvenile court a certificate setting out the nature of the offence and stating that the offender has been found guilty thereof, and that the case has been remitted for the purpose of being dealt with under this section.".
Section 5 of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting "provided under this Ordinance".
6. Section 6 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced by the following-
"Separation
of children and young persons in police stations, courts, etc. fet. 1933, c. 12,
31.1
6.
(1) No child or young person while-— (a) detained in a police station;
(b) being conveyed to or from any criminal
court; or
(c) waiting before or after attendance in any
criminal court,
Amendment
of section 5,
Repeal and replacement of section 6.