CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 66 Powers of juvenile courts in relation to persons who are not, or who cease to be, children or young persons.

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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 66

Powers of juvenile courts in relation to persons who are not, or who cease to be, children or young persons.

66.(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, if it thinks fit to
do so, 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) Where any proceedings in respect of a young person are commenced before a
juvenile court and he attains the age of seventeen before the conclusion of
the proceedings, the court may continue to deal with the case and make any
order which it could have made if he had not attained that age; and for the
purposes of this subsection proceedings taken in consequence of any default,
shall be deemed to be part of the original proceedings.

(3) Where in any such proceedings as are mentioned in subsection (2) or in
proceedings under section 97, 108, 143 or 144(1), a court makes in respect of
a person who has attained the age of seventeen

(a)an order sending him to a training school or committing him to the care of
a fit person; or

(b)a supervision order;

(4) The attainment of the age of seventeen by a person in respect of whom a
probation order or an order for conditional discharge has been made, shall not
deprive a juvenile court of jurisdiction either to enforce his attendance and
deal with him in respect of any failure to comply with the requirements of the
probation order or the commission of a further offence, or to amend or
discharge the probation order.

(5) In this section

"default" means failure to pay, or want of sufficient distress to satisfy, any
fine or other sum of money, or failure to do or abstain from doing any thing
required to be done or left undone;

"the original proceedings" means the proceedings in which the fine was imposed
or other sum awarded or the thing was ordered to be done or left undone.

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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 66