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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 177

Appeal.

177.(1) Without prejudice to the provisions of Part XIII of the Magistrates'
Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 1964 or to any right of appeal conferred by any
other enactment (including an enactment contained in this Act) an appeal to
the county court from an order of a court of summary jurisdiction under
this Act may be brought under and in accordance with those provisions in any
of the following cases and by the following persons respectively, that is to
say

(a)from an order committing a child or young person to a remand home under
section 74 or to the care of a fit person, a training school order or a
supervision order, by the child or young person or his parent or guardian on
his behalf;

(b)from an order under section 140(2) or paragraph 11(1) of Schedule 5 sending
any person to ... a young offenders centre, by that person or his parent or
guardian on his behalf;

(c)from a decision of a juvenile court under section 143(4), by any person
aggrieved thereby;

(d)from an order requiring a person to enter into a recognizance to exercise
proper care and guardianship over a child or young person, by the person
required to enter into the recognizance;

(e)from a contribution order, by the contributor;

(f)from an order requiring all or any part of the payments accruing due under
an affiliation order to be paid to some other person, by the person who would
but for the order be entitled to the payments;

(g)from an order made under section 162, by any person aggrieved thereby.

(2) Where a person appeals against an order made under this Act by a court of
summary jurisdiction without convicting him, the county court shall have the
like powers on the appeal as if it had been against both conviction and
sentence.

(3) An appeal by a child or young person in respect of whom an order has been
made under this Act by a court of summary jurisdiction, whether the appeal is
against the order or against the finding upon which the order was made, may be
brought by him or by his parent or guardian on his behalf.


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