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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 64

Assignment of certain matters to juvenile courts.

64.(1) Without prejudice to section 4 of the Summary Jurisdiction and Criminal
Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1958 and subject to subsections (2) and (3), no
charge against a child or young person, and no application whereof the hearing
is by magistrates' courts rules assigned to juvenile courts, shall be heard by
a magistrates' court which is not a juvenile court.

(2) Notwithstanding anything in subsection (1), a charge shall be heard by a
magistrates' court other than a juvenile court where the charge is made
jointly against a child or young person and a person who has attained the age
of seventeen.

(3) Notwithstanding anything in subsection (1), a charge may be heard by a
magistrates' court other than a juvenile court

(a)where a child or young person is charged with an offence arising out of
circumstances which are the same as or connected with those giving rise to an
offence with which a person who has attained the age of seventeen is charged
at the same time;

(b)where a child or young person is charged with an offence, and a person who
has attained the age of seventeen is charged at the same time with aiding,
abetting, causing, counselling, procuring, allowing or permitting that
offence;

(c)where a person who has attained the age of seventeen is charged with an
offence, and a child or young person is charged at the same time with aiding,
abetting, causing, counselling, procuring, allowing or permitting that
offence;

(d)where, in the course of any proceedings before any magistrates' court other
than a juvenile court, it appears that the person to whom the proceedings
relate is a child or young person, and the court thinks fit to proceed with
the hearing and determination of those proceedings.

(4) No direction, whether contained in this or any other Act, that a charge
shall be brought before a juvenile court shall be construed as restricting the
powers of any justice to entertain an application for bail or for a remand,
and to hear such evidence as may be necessary for that purpose.

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