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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 74

Powers of courts on finding of guilt of juvenile offenders.

74.(1) Subject to section 77(1) any court by or before which a child or
young person is found guilty of an offence punishable in the case of an adult
with imprisonment (other than an offence to which section 73(1) applies)
shall, in addition to any other powers exercisable by virtue of this Act, the
Probation Act (Northern Ireland) 1950 or any other Act, have power

(a)to order him to be sent to a training school;

(b)to commit him to the care of a fit person, whether a relative or not, who
is willing to undertake the care of him;

(c)if he is a child, to make a supervision order with respect to him;

(d)to order him, under section 135, to attend at an attendance centre;

(e)if it considers that no other method of dealing with him is suitable to
commit him to custody in a remand home.

(2) Where an order is made under this section committing a child or
young person to the care of a fit person, a probation order may also be made
under the Probation Act (Northern Ireland) 1950.

(3) The term or the aggregate of the terms for which a person may be committed
to custody in a remand home under this section shall not exceed the maximum
term or terms for which he could (or could if he were an adult) have been
sentenced to prison, and shall not on any occasion exceed one month.


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