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CAP. 226]

Juvenile Offenders

[1983 Ed.

Procedure in juvenile courts.

[cf. 1933 c. 12, ss. 47 and 49.1

Miscellaneous provisions as to powers of juvenile courts.

[ef. 1933 c. 12, s. 48.]

(Cap. 298.)

with aiding, abetting, causing, procuring, allowing or per- mitting that offence; and

(c) where, in the course of any proceedings before any court of summary jurisdiction other than a juvenile court, it appears that the person to whom the proceedings relate is a child or young person, nothing in this subsection shall be construed as preventing the court, if it thinks fit so to do, from proceeding with the hearing and determination of those proceedings.

(3) No direction, whether contained in this or any other Ordin- ance, that a charge shall be brought before a juvenile court shall be construed as restricting the powers of any judge, District Judge or magistrate to entertain an application for bail or for a remand, and to hear such evidence as may be necessary for that purpose.

( Added, 15 of 1973, s. 4)

3D. (1) Juvenile courts shall sit as often as may be necessary for the purpose of exercising any jurisdiction conferred on them by this or any other Ordinance.

(2) A juvenile court shall not sit in a room in which sittings of a court other than a juvenile court are held if a sitting of that other court has been or will be held within an hour before or after the sitting of the juvenile court.

(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 con- cerned in that case;

(c) bona fide representatives of newspapers or news agencies; (d) such other persons as the court may specially authorize to

be present.

(4) Notwithstanding subsection (3)(c) a juvenile court may exclude any representative of a newspaper or news agency from any sitting thereof.

( Added, 15 of 1973, s. 4)

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 notwithstanding that it is discovered that the person in question is not a child or young person.

(2) The attainment of the age of 16 years by a person- (a) under supervision by virtue of a probation order made

under the Probation of Offenders Ordinance; or

(b) in whose case an order for conditional discharge has been

made,

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